Watford's Craig Cathcart has revealed Jonny Evans and Ryan Shawcross were the players he looked up to at Manchester United. The centre-back came through the United youth ranks in 2007 but never made a senior appearance for the club, before joining Blackpool in 2010.
He's now a Premier League mainstay with Watford but has admitted in an exclusive interview with MEN Sport that Evans - now at Leicester - and Stoke City defender Shawcross - were role models for him.
Evans and Cathcart have also been central defensive partners for Northern Ireland and both owe their development to United. "Everyone at the club was great, the boss [Sir Alex Ferguson] at the time had all his staff and they were all very approachable," said Cathcart. "I think as
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