Paul Scholes reveals ‘awful’ 80s pop legend trained with Man Utd players after invite from Sir Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson erstwhile invited popular fable Mick Hucknall to bid with Manchester United – with the Simply Red prima bringing his Miss World woman on with him.

Hucknall, a immense United fan, has been pictured sitting alongside the legendary United manager watching games astatine Old Trafford implicit the years.

But the 80s fable erstwhile joined the first-team squad successful grooming connected the eve of a immense Champions League clash against Barcelona successful 1994.

Former United midfielders Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt, portion of the broadside that was thrashed 4-0 astatine the Camp Nou, recalled however Hucknall rocked up connected the grooming transportation up of the crippled – blasted by Roy Keane for putting successful a mediocre performance.

Speaking connected the Football’s Greatest podcast, Scholes said: ‘I don’t cognize if you remember, years and years earlier erstwhile we played Barcelona, adjacent Bobby Charlton trained with america 1 night. Remember Mick Hucknall trained with america too? We got bushed 4-1 that night.’

Butt joked: ‘Mick Hucknall should person played really due to the fact that we were each crap! He was awful. He didn’t look similar a footballer, helium had nary co-ordination.

‘He could sing truly good possibly helium should person stuck to that one. I retrieve Keano giving him a b******ing due to the fact that helium kept giving the shot away.’

Butt besides revealed however Hucknall had arrived with Miss World connected his limb earlier that day.

‘I don’t cognize what her sanction was, but she was a bully looking girl. She came to the pre-match, helium brought her in,’ Butt said.

‘I don’t deliberation the manager was excessively blessed astir that. Everyone’s attraction went from the game.’

Scholes hilariously added: ‘No wonderment we got beat.’

Ferguson and Hucknall archetypal met successful the precocious 80s with the 2 forging a adjacent friendship.

‘Mick was astir apt the archetypal popular prima I met,’ Ferguson erstwhile recalled. ‘It was astir 1987, erstwhile helium played astatine the Old Trafford cricket ground, and helium invited my woman and I backstage aft the gig.

‘He was much funny successful Manchester United than I was successful the gig – helium kept asking astir the team; you could spot helium was a fanatic.’

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