Manchester United legend Dwight Yorke has revealed Sir Alex Ferguson told him to f*** off when he asked for a year's holiday after winning the treble in 1999.

Yorke was an instrumental figure that season, scoring 29 goals as United won the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League.

The Trinidad and Tobago forward felt he needed a year off from football, but Ferguson was having none of it.

He told the UTD Podcast:"Yeah (he asked Sir Alex for a year off), with pay. I mean what else is there to do in football after winning the treble?

"I was on such a high. It was ridiculous. Concorde was flying back then and I remember we went to New York. Back in the days they used to put you up with the pilot. I got to New York and I thought 'what else is there to achieve after this?' because everything else will be a failure or deemed as a failure.

"I went into the gaffer's office and said 'what are we doing? After winning the treble there's nothing to do. Can I have a year off from football with pay? Then I'll come back the next year and rejoin the team'.

"I honestly don't know what made me think that. What more could we possibly do as a team? Yeah we could repeat it but if you don't then the team is a failure. If there was a time you were going to ask the gaffer for anything, that was it. I didn't have anything to lose.

"He could only tell me to f*** off, which he did. He said 'f*** off and get lost'. It was jokingly but if he had said to take a year off then I would have done. But I knew that wasn't going to happen so I thought it was worth a try."