Few managers in the Premier League era have done enough to have supporters hanging on their every decision, but Sir Alex Ferguson was certainly one.
As a result, if Ferguson trusted a player to deliver when it mattered, you could be sure there would be supporters who felt the same way.
This was often felt most keenly with Manchester United academy graduates who were given a chance to establish themselves in the first-team, but the use of Park Ji-sung in big games was another example of the boss knowing his squad better than they knew themselves.
And the more the supporters saw Park contribute to huge results, the more they welcomed him into their arms as a cult hero. "Before I came here, I believed I could do it but I wasn't sure," Park
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