Arsenal legend says Fergie interrupted Coronation St to lure him to Man UtdSeaman Says
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00:00How long were you at Leicester before Arsenal came in for you? Or were there other teams that came in for you?
00:06I spoke to Alex Ferguson, so I stayed at Leicester for five years and then Gary left for Everton and then I was getting interested in that.
00:19I remember one January evening, I was living with mum and dad still, we were sat in the lounge watching Coronation Street, I always remember.
00:27And the phone goes in the hall, because the phone was always in the hall wasn't it?
00:32On the telephone table.
00:34Yellow pages and phone books.
00:36And the wire.
00:38Mum goes to answer it and she comes back in and she says, Alan, there's an Alex Ferguson on the phone for you.
00:44I'm like, are you sure, are you sure you've got the name right mum?
00:47I mean Alex had only been at United for about a year and he'd been struggling, so it wasn't like it was the, oh Sir Alex.
00:55He was obviously a big name, he's the Man United manager.
00:58So I've gone into the hall and gone, hello.