I won the Premier League at Manchester United - now I work for a bank

When Manchester United announced the signing of goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard on November 27, 2010, Sir Alex Ferguson was excited by the Dane's potential.

Lindegaard was 26 at the time but that is still considered a relatively young age in terms of a goalkeeper's development.

"Anders is one of the brightest young 'keepers in the game," said Ferguson. "The challenge at Manchester United is always to look to the future and, in Anders, we have signed a goalkeeper of great presence and even more promise."

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Lindegaard, who is now 40, spent five years at Old Trafford. However, he failed to assert himself as the club's No.1, watching the end of Edwin van der Sar's United career and the first few seasons of David de Gea's at Old Trafford.

The former goalkeeper, who decided to hang up his gloves in November 2022, only made a total of 29 appearances during his United career, with his busiest season proving to be the 2012/13 campaign, marking Ferguson's last in charge and the last season that United won the Premier League title.

He made 10 league appearances that season, keeping two clean sheets, and was in the starting line-up for Ferguson's final game in charge - the 5-5 draw against West Bromwich Albion. Lindegaard's tally of 10 appearances meant he qualified for a Premier League medal.

Despite that, the shot-stopper was not happy with the standard of his performances that season, stemming from an ankle injury he had suffered in January 2012.

Speaking to the Manchester Evening News in 2022, Lindegaard said: "The whole following year, which was the