Speaking to the Daily Express, Steve Bruce has revealed his former Manchester United team-mate Paul Ince once pulled a gun on Sir Alex Ferguson.“Paul was nuts when he was a kid,” said Bruce. “I don’t think Fergie was ever attacked by a rifle before.
“I remember when he brought in his gun. He poked it around the door and it was a big air rifle. Fergie must have shouted at him or something like that to provoke it.
“Incey was larger than life and a good character to have around. He must have had something about him to threaten Fergie with a gun. We saw him do it. He poked the gun through the door and he was only 22 at the time.
“It was just tongue in cheek, though. He just knocked on the door and said something like, ‘You’d better stop picking on me’ or, ‘You had better play me on Saturday’.”
Bruce added: “He liked to think he was the Guv’nor. It just showed you how much front and bottle he had to be called the Guv’nor even when he first walked in the door.
“I just thought, ‘Who’s this cocky little thing from West Ham?’ But when you’re cocky like him you have to be able to back it up – and by god he was a good player. To have him and Roy Keane in front of me in their prime, with Andrei Kanchelskis and Ryan Giggs on the wings and Mark Hughes and Eric Cantona up front, that was some team I can tell you. It could do everything.”
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