says Riyaz, who grew up around Withington and West Didsbury.
“My dad grew up watching United in Mauritius – his favourite players were Paul McGrath and Remi Moses – and my earliest memory is Dad coming home with the Manchester Evening News. They used to put a little advert in if you were able to pay at the turnstiles for certain games, and I’d be waiting for him to come home and say: ‘Yeah, we can go.’
“The first game I ever went to, we paid five quid on the turnstiles when Southampton knocked us out of the [FA] Cup on penalties [in 1992].