Sir Alex Feguson reveals Manchester United have tanning booths to combat rainy season

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed he had tanning booths installed at the club’s Carrington training ground to compensate for the lack of sun in rainy Manchester.

The veteran Scot opened up to Harvard Business School about everything from his match-day rituals to motivating millionaire stars, but also let slip that players have tanning machines on hand in the dressing room to top them up with much-needed Vitamin D.

In the fascinating study, entitled ‘Sir Alex Ferguson: Managing Manchester United’, the authors, Anita Elberse and Tom Dye, reveal: ‘He [Ferguson] could talk enthusiastically about the new Vitamin D machine (which perhaps most resembled a tanning booth) in the players’ dressing room at Carrington, put there to help them counterbalance the lack of sunlight in Manchester, or his plan for the new season to give players staggered one-week breaks in the winter months to replenish their Vitamin D.’

This certainly goes a long way to explaining why Cristiano Ronaldo was such a rich mahogany colour during his final few seasons at Old Trafford.

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Source: Metro