Roy Keane has reminded former Manchester United captain Gary Neville that he received a stroke of luck when the Red Devils failed in a move for Stuart Pearce.
Left-back Pearce was targeted by United boss Alex Ferguson early in the manager's Old Trafford tenure. However, with Forest boss Brian Clough standing in the way of a move, the defender ended up racking up more than 500 Forest appearances.
This forced Ferguson into a different approach as he aimed to build a defence capable of challenging for trophies, and it wasn't until 1993 that they ended a long drought for an English top-flight title. That was also the season when Neville made his senior debut in Europe, but things could have gone very differently.
