The Uruguayan joined us for an exclusive interview recently, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his transfer to the club on 22 January 2002.
Forlan reminisced fondly about the dressing room’s culture, praising the dry humour of Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs and noting the characterful rants often made by Roy Keane and Gary Neville.
But Diego says things got serious whenever the regular staff-versus-players quiz was staged, as was common on European away trips.
“Something that I remember as well that was great [was] every away game in the Champions League – I don't know if they still do it – there was always a quiz .