Steve Bruce
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But you know Cantona was totally different off the pitch and all the rest of it.
But as an absolute train, the way he trained and the way he played, he was exemplary.
He used to carry around a big bag, you know, and we used to think, what the hell's in the bag?
And it was all supplements and vitamins and this, that and the other.
So he took it really, really seriously.
Everything he did about training was thoroughly serious.
However, as we've seen many times when he decided to chin the policeman, we'd all love to be a bit of a maverick, wouldn't we?
And I thought that's where Fergie was at his best when managing him.
And he managed him fantastically well.
What did he do with him?
Well, he was never late.
He was never late.
He was never like a maverick who, he wasn't a drinker.
No.
You know, so he didn't get into trouble that way where most of us, you're either late or you've been out.
I've heard a few of the stories.
I don't know.
I've just got a little bit.
But I was amazed when I... I've been friends with Jonny Besto for years and I remember when we went to Barbados that he came out in the middle of the Test match.
We only went to the house I was staying in and he'd come and had dinner with us and you were allowed.