Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster has revealed he often seeks out Tony Coton for support.

Former Watford and Manchester United goalkeeper Coton had six years at Vicarage Road.

In the interview on the club's YouTube channel, Foster started by saying: “When he was at Man United, he was goalie coach. I was on loan at Wrexham at the time and TC was the guy who game in to watch me. He was the guy who started my whole career really."

Coton then joked: “Is the cheque in the post? Or is there a bottle of wine at this festive time?" before continuing: “I knew about Ben from Racing Club Warwick and Stoke and that background, but then he was at Wrexham.

“It was a friend of mine who lives in Mold just outside Wrexham who said 'we haven't got a bad goalie here' so I went down and Richard Hartis who is the Man United goalie coach now was the academy coach, I said come with me and I'll show you how you scout a goalkeeper, and it was Ben.

“I followed it up and I said to Sir Alex [Ferguson] 'we need to sign this guy but the thing that he needs is games'. So the first thing I did was popped him off on loan here, so I actually didn't get that much time to work with him on a daily basis but I spoke to Aidy Boothroyd and said 'there's a goalie here, you've got to take him' and that was part of the process we thought was best for Ben's development."