It is often the little things that make a manager the right fit for a particular club and so it was with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Beating the likes of Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal and Chelsea away from home or orchestrating a remarkable comeback victory in Paris are never likely to hurt a caretaker’s cause, of course.
But then the simple stuff – like insisting that players wear suits when travelling to games, sign programmes for supporters on their way into the ground and do up their top buttons – is all part of the job too.
These small but significant gestures, many of them only witnessed behind the scenes at Old Trafford and Carrington, built up gradually over the course of the last 99 days to make a lasting, winning impression.
When combined with an impressive set of results – 32 points from a possible 39 won in the Premier League and an unlikely place in the Champions League quarter-finals – these little things helped convince Manchester United they had already found their next manager.
