Legendary Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been banned from the team’s dressing room.

According to Mail Sport, the board have also been asked to stay away from the Old Trafford dressing room.

This breaks a long tradition dating back to the days of Sir Matt Busby.

Earlier on Tuesday it emerged that Ferguson’s multi-million pound ambassadorial role had been abandoned by United’s new co-owner INEOS as part of a sweeping cost-cutting programme.

In another controversial decision, Ferguson, who is the most successful manager in the club’s history, will no longer enter the inner sanctum after matches in a policy change.

United insist they directly banned Ferguson from the dressing room. They say there is now a “collective understanding” about who goes inside.