Mike Stone

Mike Stone was Manchester United’s club doctor for a decade during the most successful period in the club’s history. He was dismissed by Sir Alex Ferguson in 2006 shortly after Wayne Rooney fractured his metatarsal in a game against Chelsea, whichled to weeks of speculation of his recovery running up to that year’s World Cup. Ferguson told him that he had been dismissed because of his part-time work at the English Institute of Sport, and Dr Stone found work there after he left United, helping Olympic athletes. He later moved on to work for the England Cricket Board and toured Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Australia with them before a lengthy spell as club doctor at Birmingham City.