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Ashley Young and Rooney recall Moyes's ban on Friday chips

Their Stick to United conversation traces how small changes to dressing-room life marked a much bigger break with the Ferguson years.

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2:23Young recalls considering City and hearing from Gerrard before Ferguson convinced him to choose United.
7:18Young describes a dressing room where players enforced Ferguson's standards themselves.
21:13Moyes's changes included closer supervision, different hotel routines and a ban on Friday chips.
32:48Van Gaal's strict meetings and dining rules lead into Rooney's account of challenging him over morale.
50:48Young says Solskjær initially brought back Ferguson-era cultural expectations, but sustaining them proved difficult.
59:20Young reads Goldbridge's old criticism of his United departure back to the host.

Friday chips were off the menu. For Ashley Young and Wayne Rooney, that small change under David Moyes belongs to a much larger story about what Manchester United lost when Sir Alex Ferguson retired.

Young's appearance on The United Stand's Stick to United has drawn about 434,000 views since yesterday. Beyond the exchange about his departure that we reported here, the episode offers two former teammates comparing memories of how the club operated, from hotel routines to who actually enforced the rules.

Under Ferguson, Young says, players did much of the policing themselves. Rooney describes an authority supported by delegation, rather than a manager trying to control every detail. Their account of Moyes's arrival includes altered hotel arrangements, closer supervision and the removal of those Friday chips. Young also recalls the scale of United's commercial pre-season tours surprising the incoming manager.

The contrast becomes more theatrical under Louis van Gaal: rigid dining arrangements, lengthy tactical meetings and Rooney raising concerns about team morale. Rooney's recollection of the manager insisting he would not change is one of the moments viewers pick out in the comments.

There is warmth before the managerial post-mortem, too. Young remembers meeting Ferguson while weighing his move from Aston Villa: the conversation wandered into horses and wine, but the decision became straightforward. "As soon as I left, I literally said to my agent, give me a pen," he says.

The episode includes a sponsored segment promoting Disney+'s Rivals. Its football conversation returns repeatedly to standards, with Young recalling how Ole Gunnar Solskjær initially restored familiar expectations, and how difficult those proved to sustain.

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Channel: The United Stand
Subscribers: 2,320,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 8,978,737
Video published: November 10, 2026
Video views so far: 433,968 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 469,266

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