Unlike me, Sir Alex Ferguson was a master of when to pick his fights. One of his great attributes was to treat every player the same way.
It didn’t matter if it was a first-team player on £100,000 a week or an academy kid learning the ropes, he would always deliver a punishment that fitted the crime - and no one was above the law.
As Manchester United’s goalkeeping coach between 1998 and 2007, I had a close-up view of just how calculating the boss could be, as great United players such as David Beckham, Roy Keane and Ruud van Nistelrooy were banished from Old Trafford at a time when everyone else regarded them as indispensable.