Sir Alex Ferguson lost his temper and told me to pick iconic Man Utd walk-out song.. Gary Neville didn’t choose it
FORMER MANCHESTER UNITED striker Brian McClair wants to set the record straight…again.
McClair insists he chose United’s iconic walkout song ‘This is the One’ and not Gary Neville, who took the credit last month.
He even revealed that Sir Alex Ferguson blew a gasket over the song debate at the time.
The topic has been hotly disputed in recent months after Neville claimed he picked the tune still used at Old Trafford today.
But now McClair has now doubled down on his previous call out of Neville and Old Trafford announcer Alan Keegan.
Both made bold claims in a club promotional video that focused on the origins of the melody.
Speaking to Scottish Premiership giants, Celtic, McClair stated: “Well there appears to be two truths.
“United stopped going out to ‘Simply the Best’ because I thought it would be amusing to tell the manager that Rangers came out to that.
“We had a little debate about what it should be and Ferguson loved, and still does I imagine, the crooners of the fifties, Dean Martin, Sammy Davies Jnr and the Rat Pack and all these other people he kept mentioning.
“I’m like ‘it seems like something you’d get buried to gaffer not go out on a football pitch’ and he lost his temper.
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“He told me you f*****g pick it then, so it’s another little thing you remember.
“So I picked ‘This is the One’ which I was listening to when I was here at Celtic.”
McClair spent over a decade with United between 1987 and 1998, and won four Premier Leagues in that time.
He shared a dressing room with a young Neville as he and the rest of the Class of 92′ broke through the club’s academy.
The dispute first came to light after current first team players Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho and Scott McTominay took part in a photoshoot to show off the new Stone Roses-themed collection.
The Sky Sports pundit outlined how he was given the honour of choosing the famed tunnel anthem by Ferguson and not McClair.
Neville told the Man United website last month: “When the manager made me captain and I knew I’d be leading the team out, I wanted a new song.
“I wanted us to come out to a song from Manchester. I just loved ‘This Is the One’.
“It felt to me like Old Trafford was the place where it all happened, and I’d heard enough about Oasis, for years.
“Manchester has got a better band than Oasis. The Stone Roses had a massive impact on the city.”
Meanwhile, McClair recently underwent a transformation on his Instagram.