Fletcher loves his boyhood team and he had them on the brain hours before United came calling
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Celtic-daft Darren Fletcher sent a revered Manchester United author armed with a watchlist of players to keep an eye on against Rangers – hours before he was handed the reins at Old Trafford.
Andy Mitten – the creator of famed fanzine ‘United We Stand’ – revealed Fletcher has the Hoops on the brain and was briefing him on who to keep tabs on at Celtic Park on a day Wilfried Nancy managed Celtic for the last time after Rangers fought back to win 3-1.
Fletcher was then on the frontline himself after Ruben Amorim left under a cloud after his vocal grievances about the running of Manchester United. But then the former United star swapped keeping tabs on Celtic to rescuing a team in need closer to home.
Mitten speaking to talkSPORT, said: “They bring in Darren Fletcher, I’ve got a very high opinion of Darren Fletcher, I was speaking to him, all last Saturday, I went to Celtic vs Rangers and he was telling me which players to watch out, he is a childhood Celtic fan, but I don’t think he knew what was going to happen the following day.”
The 80-capped Scotland hero managed United for the draw with Burnley and the FA Cup defeat to Brighton on Sunday and Mitten is utterly convinced the 41-year-old will make a top boss down the road.
He added: “I think he’ll make a very good manager, Darren Fletcher, I don’t know where that will be, I think he spoke well, but that was only for a couple of games, and then it now looks like Michael Carrick, I spoke with a Solskjaer several times, last week as well, these are difficult times.
“I don’t have a panacea of the problems at Manchester United right now, it’s been a very disappointing season, league form has picked up, but cup form has been atrocious, there were 22 cup games last year, there have been two this year, the one season where Manchester United needed to be in doing rather domestic cups was this season.”
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