Tales from Inside United official magazine | Episode 400 out now

“I used to be just about given a free rein to wander round The Cliff after which Carrington to make sure I may organize the interviews and photoshoots,” she remembers. “When it got here to nailing down a ‘sure’, ‘no’ or ‘possibly’ from a participant, I spent many a lonely hour hanging round their automobile park.”

Most of the time it was a ‘sure’ from gamers, longing for an look within the journal – the biggest-selling soccer magazine within the nation at one time – or with one thing they needed to speak to United supporters via its pages. And when it got here to presenting these interviews within the journal, there was normally a artistic therapy of some kind dreamed up for this or that shut encounter with a Reds participant – even when some concepts got here with a bit of danger!

“I’ll at all times bear in mind nailing a superb Christmas cowl for the journal one 12 months,” Rebecca recounts within the new particular version. “I’m unsure the place photoshop was in 2002, as a result of the snow that lightly fell down on Roy Keane, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ryan Giggs and Seba Veron concerned me and a colleague standing on ladders and throwing synthetic snow on their heads! Keano appears to be like festively cheerful on the duvet – that’s not the look I obtained in between takes!”