At the PFA’s annual ceremony in April 2013, Sir Alex Ferguson was invited on to the stage with the Class of 92 to collect a special merit award. With a room full of several hundred people slapping him on the back as he made his way up to the receive the award, it would have been very easy for him to take all the glory. Instead, as Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes looked on, Ferguson spoke about the men who really did discover the group of players who trialled each night at Albert Park in Salford in the late Eighties.
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Jordon Ibe was brought to Liverpool's attention by Mel Johnson
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Ibe has played nine times for the Reds first team and never lost
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Johnson says: 'You have to go to games and go with your gut instincts'
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Brought to Anfield by Damien Comolli, Johnson was sacked last year
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Johnson flagged both to @placeholder when he arrived at the club shortly after the appointment of Damien Comolli as technical director in 2010.