Former Manchester United star Wes Brown revealed how a fight on a bus led to Sir Alex Ferguson scolding him – and bizarrely a pay rise.
The defender spent a staggering 14 years at Old Trafford under Sir Alex, having come through the academy after breaking into the first team at 18. He was an underrated feature of several successful United squads, including the 1999 treble-winning side, where he covered at full-back and centre-back.
Brown no doubt witnessed and even faced Ferguson’s infamous hair dryer treatment countless times. And he has now recalled one stunning story of a bust up with the Scot, which actually ended up benefitting him.
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Speaking on the Football Social Daily podcast, Brown said: “I turned pro at 17 and started playing at 18, and in that time I still hadn’t signed another contract, so I was probably on about £250 a week.
“And then I had a fight on a bus going home because I got the bus everywhere, the 192 into Piccadilly.
“Something happened on the bus and my manager (Ferguson) found out and he said to me ‘what the f*** are you doing on the bus?’
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“I said, ‘I’ve always got the bus, boss’ and he’s shouting at me for getting a bus and telling me to get a taxi.”
The ex-defender added: “I explained to him that I couldn’t afford a taxi because that would be £14 a day, £7 from my house to Salford.
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“Still living with my mum and I need to give her some money and buying snide Ralph Laurens to go out. He stopped shouting at me after that. And he was like ‘yeah, well we’ll sort that out’.
“And that’s pretty much how that went. So the actual incident got forgotten about so I was happy about that.”
Brown, 43, won a whopping five Premier League titles under Sir Alex. His glittering career in Manchester came to an end when he joined Sunderland in 2011, before hanging up his boots following a stint in India in 2018.
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