Sir Alex Ferguson is delighted to see so many of his former Manchester United players succeeding in management.

"I am pleased with all my old players, there are quite a few now (who are managers)," Ferguson said.

"If it's Sunderland it's Keane, if it's Wigan it's Bruce, Sparky (Mark Hughes) at Man City and now I've got Incy (Paul Ince) to worry about. There are so many.

"It's hard to say why so many of my old players have become managers - maybe they think it's easy having worked with me.

"But I look at some of them and I never thought they would be managers. The only one I thought was an absolute certainty to make it was Bryan Robson.

"I think he was a terrific manager, I just didn't think he got the breaks."