Erik ten Hag s appointment as Manchester United boss marks the pinnacle of a career that has seen him lauded as the genius with the skills to return the fallen giant to the top of the English football tree.
CHRIS WHEELER: June 7 is a date Ten Hag has in his diary as a day of mourning. It was that day in 1989 that his close friend Andy Scharmin died in a plane crash.
Technical director Darren Fletcher and football director John Murtough reportedly flew out to Amsterdam to interview the Dutchman for the managerial vacancy at Old Trafford last month.