Kevin Moran's Fearless Football Legacy

You know, I think you know Kevin played Gaelic football.

The ball would be coming to me there, and Kevin would head the back of my head.

Sometimes he'd come off worse, but it didn't bother him.

He was letting me know that he was there. He was tough as nails.

After my first two years at United, we counted and you'd had

52 stitches in your head.

Kevin Moran, there's a guy who would throw himself in front of a grenade for United.

Once you pull that red jersey on, and you go over that white line, you lay it down.

You lay your life down. Watching the way he'd go into challenges,

I'd be thinking, oof,

I don't think I'll be getting involved like that.

But the injuries, I thought I'd leave them to Kevin. Fearless, son.

Fearless. Sums you up.

I'd say as strong as an ox,

because we always used to call you the ox, because you were that strong.

What does your

wife say to you when you come home with stitches and blood all over the place?

Not much, because I don't have a wife.

And off Moran's head,

he got another awful crack there in the face.

Kevin Moran is in a terrible way now. He's pouring with blood.

Remember that one, the one you got carried off in the Arsenal?

As the stretcher passed the United crowd,

they just gave me a massive roar and lift.

Kevin Moran, keeping his stomach to say to the others, we're nearly at Wembley.

It wasn't about, I'm OK, but hey, we're through.

You want to feel a connection between you as fans and your players.

You want them to embody how you'd like to think you are on the pitch.

When they come back to you like that, that's how icons are made.