One of the enduring images of an incredible night in Paris is a picture of Sir Alex Ferguson celebrating with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Eric Cantona at the Parc des Princes.
Three Manchester United icons enjoying another great moment in the club's history after Solskjaer's side had defied the odds to beat Paris Saint-Germain on away goals and reach the Champions League quarter-finals.
The Norwegian has brought so much to United since making a fairytale return to Old Trafford in December, but perhaps the most poignant aspect has been seeing Ferguson back in the fold 10 months after surviving a brain haemorrhage.
Sir Alex Ferguson celebrates Man United's win with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Eric Cantona (L)
The 77-year-old Scot was in the dressing room in Paris, clapping along as Solskjaer and his players sang and danced in celebration of a famous victory.
Ferguson stayed with the rest of the United party at the £290-a-night Hotel Collectionneur, just off the Champs Elysees, where he had breakfast with Solskjaer, executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward and Woodward's predecessor David Gill on the morning of the match.
And he was on a rather raucous flight home, emerging bleary-eyed from Manchester Airport in the early hours on Friday ahead of his old No 2 Mike Phelan.
'Fergie is like a new man,' an insider told Sportsmail on Friday night. 'He's absolutely buzzing off what Ole has brought to the club.'
David Moyes decided to get rid of Mike Phelan and the rest of Ferguson's backroom team
It hasn't always been this way since Ferguson retired six years ago at the end of a glittering managerial career.
The man he anointed as his successor, David Moyes, decided unwisely to dispense with Phelan and the rest of Ferguson's backroom team as he tried to put his stamp on the club.
Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho both had huge respect for Ferguson but were their own men. Perhaps wary of the shadow Sir Matt Busby once cast over Old Trafford in retirement, Ferguson kept his distance.
That has changed
