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'I had to get out... or I was going to blow': In a must-read interview, Nicky Butt opens up on why he left Man United in 2021, becoming Salford City's CEO and how Erik ten Hag's side can still get better

The first thing Nicky Butt wants to know is if anybody had been at Wembley last Sunday.

'I was there with my son,' he grins. 'It's always amazing to win a cup, I don't care what anybody says.'

Butt is 48 now but still very much a child of Manchester United, a graduate of the old Cliff training ground, and all it still represents, that stands less than a mile away from where we are talking.

'I always knew I wasn't as good as Scholesy and Giggsy and Becks,' Butt says. 'But I knew they couldn't outrun me or outfight me.