The morning after his final match in charge, a dramatic 5-5 draw at West Bromwich Albion in May, he woke without regrets. ‘My reaction was that I knew it was the best thing for me. I knew I’d done my time,’ he says. ‘It was hard, the day I told people I was retiring. I went home and it was a wee bit hard, that. I got a bit emotional about it. My attitude was, the only way I could really enjoy my life was to forget it, because you can become withdrawn about what you’re going to do. Am I going to miss this? My attitude was, I’m not going to miss it. My time has come. I’d picked the right moment. The successes were mindboggling, to think what had happened to me in my career at United. Forget the past. It’s no use to me.’