Dwight Yorke admits his final months at Manchester United drove him to drink.
In his new autobiography, Yorke wrote: "I started to drink again. I wasn't an alcoholic. But it helped to ease the loneliness.
"I was like a zombie. I'd call my mates and go out in an effort to try to forget what was happening but it could not fill the emptiness inside me.
"No matter how I tried, I couldn't get Fergie to change his mind about me and that only added to the frustration.
"In my first year at United I had scored 29 goals in 48 games. My second, 24 in 41. Even in my third I was still on that goal-every-other- game ratio of 13 from 25, despite starting fewer games.
"Regardless of the mistakes of judgement off it, I did not feel I had ever let United down on the pitch. And now I was with the reserves.
"As my career fizzled out at United I became a Sunday afternoon fixture at Brasingamens, a well-known bar in Alderley Edge.
"For the last two or three months of my United career, I would sit watching the live game on Sky TV and slowly get hammered. It became a depressing fixture in my life. I had no appetite to go anywhere else.
"I still had a smile on my face, trying to disguise the hurt I was feeling but, inside, I was in despair."
