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Former Manchester United player Lee Grant opens up on surprise new role after retiring

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Former Manchester United goalkeeper Lee Grant has joked that he has been accused of joining the "dark side" after becoming a finishing coach.

Grant, who made just two appearance for the Reds during his time at Old Trafford, retired at end of the 2021/22 season after four campaigns with United.

After leaving the club, he joined Ipswich Town's coaching staff as part of Kieran McKenna's backroom team at Portman Road. However, his role with the Tractor Boys doesn't specifically focus on working with the club's goalkeeper's.

Instead, he has been helping Ipswich's strikers. McKenna's men are currently the top scorers in League One having scoring 72 times this season - with Grant joking that his membership in the 'goalkeepers' union' is 'hanging by a thread'. ALSO READ: Southgate reacts to Rashford's New York trip amid England absence "I’ve had a bit of stick from [Ipswich goalkeeper coach] Rene Gilmartin saying I’ve crossed to the dark side," Grant told The Telegraph. "Across 20 odd years of being in goal and conceding so many goals, I can remember so many so vividly.

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