"I don't know if you remember me... but I need to call you": The text message that helped repair a Manchester United legend's sour divorce from Sir Alex Ferguson

06.03.2021 - 09:42

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straight to your inbox every day for freeSir Alex Ferguson was sat at home on a snowy January night in 2010 when his phone beeped with a text message."I don't know whether you remember me," it started."But I need to call you."Remember him he did.

It was from Ruud van Nistelrooy."He left four years ago!" Sir Alex exclaimed to wife Cathy. "Maybe he'd like to come back to United?" she replied.Ferguson was bemused.

What could he possibly want?The legendary manger simply replied "OK". His phone lit up again shortly after, this time an incoming call from the Dutch marksman.First some awkward small talk about injuries and playing time - then a sentence Ferguson had waited four years to hear."I want to apologise for my behaviour in my last year at.

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"I don't know if you remember me... but I need to call you": The text message that helped repair a Manchester United legend's sour divorce from Sir Alex Ferguson

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