'Sir Ferguson went for me - after I told him: "go f*** yourself"': Ince reveals
Paul Ince has revealed that Sir Alex Ferguson once 'went for' him after he told him to 'go and f*** yourself'.
Ince joined United in 1989 from West Ham, enjoying a six-year stay with the club before departing for Inter Milan in 1995 and going onto play for the likes of Liverpool and Wolves.
While at United he won two Premier League titles, two FA Cups, one League Cup and one Super Cup playing under Ferguson, who reigned at United for another 18 years after Ince left the club.
The pair had endured a somewhat mixed relationship, with Ferguson once branding Ince a 'bottle job' before agreeing his sale to Inter for £7.5milion, which was one of the biggest fees involving an English club at the time.
Now, speaking to Simon Jordan on William Hill's Up Front podcast, Ince revealed how he nearly came to blows with his manager in a changing room row.
'It happened after a game away at Norwich,' he said. 'We were 3-1 up and I'd had a very good game, I was playing really well. In the last five minutes, I tried to beat one or two players with the ball and got caught… that was it.
'We get into the changing room, everyone is high-fiving and saying, "What a great result". Sir Alex Ferguson comes in shouting and I'm thinking, "What's he going mad for, we've just won 3-1?"
'He singles me out and says, "You, you're not Ryan Giggs or Andrei Kanchelskis. Your job is to pass the ball!'. I said, "what the f*** are you on about?" He's hollering and shouting, and getting closer and closer. I wasn't having it. I didn't care what the repercussions were, I really didn't.
"I said to him, 'Gaffer, you can go f*** yourself. I don't give a f*** gaffer, go and f*** yourself, do what you want. You're moaning when we've just won, f*** off'. All of a sudden he
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