Steve Bruce
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I mean, people used to say that Phil was arguably a better cricketer than he was footballer.
Actually, we used to play it at Villa when I got there.
We played in the indoors and all the rest of it.
Not before a game, but we'd have a go.
I don't think it happened at United, but certainly at a couple of the clubs I've been at, we'd have the indoor, because the indoor facilities came along.
So good, yeah.
Well, he saw the headlines.
By the way, he wouldn't let us play golf either.
No, he wouldn't.
Because I think he always thought that we were as bad as what he was at the golf and he used to exhaust him.
Hang on a minute.
You know what we're talking about, attack, attack, attack.
One of the big things he did when we played Barcelona in 91...
arguably their player who would all revolve on was Koeman.
Ronald Koeman.
What a fabulous footballer he was.
And he was a centre-half, really.
But he was the first to step out and play like a midfield player.
And everything that Barcelona did came through him.
So Fergie got our centre-forward, Brian McClare, to man-mark Ronald Koeman.