Ji-sung Park was a well-known name to football fans, due to his exploits in the 2002 World Cup – in which his country reached the semi-finals – and had also excelled for PSV Eindhoven on their run to the same stage of the 2004/05 Champions League, just months before he signed. But few could have anticipated just how key he would prove to a United side already stuffed with stars.
In a team that featured – at various points – Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo, Carlos Tevez and many other stupendously gifted players, Park was never the headline act.