Scholes 'excited' before Fergie's final talks and says which one stood out

Paul Scholes tells how he was "excited" by Alex Ferguson's team talks at Manchester United before finals and why the one before the 2008 Champions League final stood out for him.

Fergie was well known for his 'hairdryer treatment' where he would angrily lash out at players who he was not happy with, but Nicky Butt also says how he mixed that with a more sensitive side.

"There was a bit of both with him, I think he realised when we needed a real b*****ing and to be geed up," said Butt.

"He was really good at was getting his words out aggressively and telling us exactly what he thinks but then he'd have a sit down with me or Scholesy or whoever and have a word about what we need to do, where we need to be.

"It wasn't always the hairdryer, there was a lot of that but it wasn't always that."

Butt said how Fergie's team talks before big games were special but at the same time "minimal".

Butt continued: "Sir Alex was brilliant before a big Champions League game or a final. He was very minimal in what he said, it was just have no regrets, just go out there, don't be thinking you can't put your hands on the trophy at the end of the game, little things like that.

"It was never masses of information, certainly in my time, just go out, do your all, work hard."

While for Scholes he particularly remembers the team talk before the 2008 Champions League final against Chelsea where Fergie took the pressure off the players by talking by their childhoods.

Scholes told The Good, The Bad and The Football podcast: "He had a way of getting it across to you, that you are willing to run through a brick wall for him, I can't tell you exactly how he did it.

"I remember a couple of team talks, you were always excited about a team talk from him before a final because you knew it was going to be a bit different.

"I've got a feeling it was in 2008 and he went round everyone of us, talking about our families, our upbringings, where you've been so Scholes from a council estate, tough life.

"Patrice Evra, look at him he's had to fight every day of his life just to put food on the table because he had about 25 or 26 brothers and sisters.

"He goes around everybody saying how tough it was as a kid and you think why is he doing that and it is probably to take a bit of worry away from you, with the game.

"It's a Champions League final, the biggest game apart from a World Cup final and he takes you back to you childhood and how lucky you are now."