Paul Parker: Roy Keane had a go at you for wearing dodgy underpants
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Jim White Mon, 15 December 2025 at 6:31 am UTC·10 min read About 10 years after winning the inaugural Premier League title, Paul Parker was approached by a memorabilia collector. The man was after the miniature version of the trophy that, instead of an old school medal, each of the winning Manchester United squad had received that season. Parker was not interested in selling. Winning things was why he played the game. And he wasn’t going to part with the physical memory of his first significant success. But, as he expressed his reluctance, he was surprised by how much the buyer was prepared to pay in the futile attempt to change his mind. “It was big money,” Parker remembers more than two...