Aston Villa legend Paul McGrath says he holds no grudge against Sir Alex Ferguson over the way he was dumped at Manchester United.
McGrath wrote in the Sunday World: "We fell out when he basically ran me out of Old Trafford in 1989, saying I was finished and trying to get me to take an insurance payment because of my dodgy knees.
"I proved him wrong by going on to play in the 1990 and 1994 World Cup Finals for Ireland and also by winning the first ever Premier League Players' Player of the Year award in 1992/3. For five years he and I studiously ignored each other in dressing-room corridors.
"Then, in March 1994, after Aston Villa had just whacked his Manchester United team 3-1 in the League Cup Final at Wembley, he sought me out and shook my hand, saying: 'Well done, big man.'
"To me that showed the class of Alex Ferguson. That was something a bit special. Just after his team had been badly turned over in a cup final, he had the decency to congratulate an opponent with whom he had previously fallen out."
