IT’S a phone call he’ll never forget: Erik ten Hag, manager of Manchester United, was on the line, talking about the prospect of him joining the coaching team.
“He wanted to have a meeting with me to see if I’d be a good fit,” Benni McCarthy recalls. The meeting took place and clearly he got the green light because soon afterwards another call came from the boss: the job was his if he wanted it.
And did he ever want it! Benni had been a fan of the Red Devils since he was a little kid growing up in Hanover Park on the Cape Flats – now he was going to go to work at Old
