Eric Cantona, enfant terrible-turned-thespian, was another who prospered under Ferguson’s leadership, which mixed romanticism with an iron rod. He says: “I spoke to Cantona every day. He was a very under-rated man and an interesting man. He needed the encouragement that he was at the right club. And he was at the right club. On the training ground you never got one ounce of difficulty with Cantona. Sometimes he would come in for training with his eyebrows down and you would say – what’s wrong with him today? Once he got warmed up, into training, he was fine.