Jesse Lingard has revealed the incredible influence, and unusual wit of Sir Alex Ferguson, whilst proclaiming last summer's World Cup in Russia as the "most fun" he's ever had in his entire life.
In an in-depth piece for the Player's Tribune, the Manchester United man has waxed lyrical on the ways of the great manager, and what it meant to know he believed in you.
The 26-year-old recalled: "I’ll never forget this one day, I was still at the academy, and I was walking the corridors at Carrington. I think maybe I was having a bad day, to be honest.