It has been 31 years since Lee Sharpe won the Young Player of the Year award, yet there is still that sparkle in his eye as he recalls his days at United.
It has been 31 years since Lee Sharpe won the PFA Young Player of the Year award, and there is still that sparkle in his eye as he sits and recalls his days at Manchester United.
“The move came as a shock to me. We were playing for Torquay United on a Friday night. I went home after that and was woken up around 1am, Saturday morning, by a phone call from my manager, Cyril Knowles. He was on the line with the secretary, Dave Turner, and said, ‘We’ve just been driven around for the past hour in a Jaguar – Alex Ferguson and Archie Knox want to see you in the morning and you’re not leaving until they get your signature. They want to sign you for Manchester United.
On the way to that League Cup final, United travelled to Highbury to take on an Arsenal side that would go on to win the league with seven points to spare, conceding just 18 goals in 38 games. To everyone’s amazement, United were 3-0 up by half-time. “Man United have always been an entertaining team to watch, and that’s why people like them. You know they’re going to let a team have two or three chances, and maybe score a couple, but they always feel they can score more. One of the things the manager always said to us was,. As a winger, that’s what you loved to hear.”
“Roy was hilarious,” Sharpe recalls. “I sat next to him in the training ground and we just spent most of our day laughing our heads off. Laughing when he is reminded of his Premier League jersey number – ‘Sharpe 5’ – he recounts how that conversation went with Alex Ferguson. “I went to see the manager . Most of the squad were settled in their numbers. He told me,. I didn’t want it and asked if I could change it. He told me, in no uncertain terms, I was getting 5. That was the way it went!”Reminded that Zinedine Zidane wore No.
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