Parker: Title challenge

"All of a sudden, people think: ‘Wow, here we go’. I was fortunate enough to play for United when we won the league and, at the start of pre-season, the manager warned us all that we had not done anything at all because we’d only just scratched the surface.

"So, in our second season, we did the Double. That means you have achieved something. It’ll be said a thousand times to other players after me that it’s never enough to win a league title medal at Manchester United. It doesn’t suddenly make you a United great.

"Sir Alex isn’t interested in players who think like that and, if he senses that anybody is happy with picking up one medal and believing they have cracked it, they will generally find they are gone in the following season."

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