DONALD TRUMP might be hoping to upstage Hillary Clinton and become the next president of America.
But before he was a controversial candidate for the world’s biggest job, Trump did his bit to make English football great again.
In 1992, ITV travelled to New York for a special edition of Saint and Greavsie.
“We’re in New York City and we need to do the draw for the Rumbelows Cup – the League Cup – and I said I’ve got a number for Robert De Niro, I’ll try him.
“And they came back. ‘Bobby would love to do that for ya but he’s otherwise engaged’.
“So we looked up, Trump Tower, let’s try Donald Trump,” Jim Rosenthal recalled during the ITV documentary When Football Changed Forever.
Never one to do things quietly, The Donald only went and pulled out Leeds v Man United.
“You don’t realise what you’ve done there!” shouted Jimmy Greaves.
“That sounds like a game I’d wanna go to,” replied Trump.
“Tell you what Donald, are you thinking of opening a store in England?” Greaves asked. “Take my advice, you can open one in Leeds but don’t go to Manchester.”
In the end Andrei Kanchelskis and a young Ryan Giggs starred in what was, at the time, a surprise 3-1 victory for Alex Ferguson’s men.
Man United went on to win the League Cup with a 1-0 win over Nottingham Forest in the final.
But they were also competing with Leeds for the last Football League title before the birth of the Premier League.
And a fixture pile up, partly caused by their League Cup run, handed the championship to their hated Yorkshire rivals.
However Trump's store still isn't expected to arrive in Leeds any time soon.
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