Sir Alex Ferguson led the tributes to former Manchester United coach Eric Harrison as he was laid to rest on Tuesday.
Harrison, who played a key role in the development of United's famous class of 92 youth team, passed away earlier this month and his funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon at Halifax Minster.
The likes of Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes and Beckham were pictured arriving, while Ferguson also attended as they said goodbye to one of the key figures in their lives.
Sir Alex Ferguson led tributes to former Manchester United coach Eric Harrison on Tuesday
David Beckham, pictured inside Halifax Minster, shook hands with a fan in a Harrison shirt
More than 300 people were reported to be in attendance at the service on Tuesday afternoon
Ex-Manchester United assistant boss Brian Kidd shook hands with the minister pre-service
Ferguson penned a heartfelt eulogy where he hailed Harrison's impact on United's players
The funeral car arrived and was lifted from the car onto the shoulders of the pallbearers
Harrison's coffin, featuring three wreaths of red flowers, was carried into Halifax Minster
Funeral service card for ex-youth coach Harrison, who was laid to rest on Tuesday afternoon
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Share 5.3k sharesFROM PLAYING FOR HALIFAX AND BARROW TO RAISING THE CREAM OF ENGLISH FOOTBALL AT MAN UNITED
Eric Harrison played football for the likes of Halifax Town and Barrow.
He went into coaching, working first at Everton before joining Manchester United.
While there, he managed the youth team and brought through David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, Gary Neville, Robbie Savage, Paul Scholes, Phil Neville and Keith Gillespie.
He left United in 2008. In 2014 he was diagnosed with mixed dementia. In 2018, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
Harrison passed away on February 13 2019.
<!- - ad: https://mads.dailymail.co.uk/v8/us/sport/sportsnews/article/other/mpu_factbox.html?id=mpu_factbox_1 - ->AdvertisementFerguson gave an emotional eulogy on behalf of Manchester United and the football fraternity as a whole.
'The players are extremely grateful to him.
'He was a fantastic coach. The most important thing is he was tough. He made these players into men.
'That's what he gave them. That toughness allowed his players to play for Manchester United.'
Nicky Butt joined the rest of his class of 92 team-mates as current Manchester United interim boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took time out of preparing for Wednesday's trip to Crystal Palace to attend the funeral.
Harrison was diagnosed with dementia in 2014 and died after spending the last few months of his life in a nursing home.
Speaking to the Huddersfield Examiner before entering Halifax Minster, Butt described Harrison as an 'excellent maker of men' and a coach who impacted people that went on to succeed in other walks of life.
More than 300 people were reported to have been inside the Minster for the funeral.
Earlier on Tuesday, David Beckham paid tribute to Harrison in a post on Instagram.
David Beckham (left) and Gary Neville (right) arrive at the funeral of Harrison on Tuesday
Legendary manager Ferguson (left) arrived for the funeral along with Nicky Butt (right)
Ryan Giggs (left) attended the funeral at Halifax Minster alongside ex-team-mate Paul Scholes
Beckham was one of many former United stars including Steve Bruce (right) who turned out
Current Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took time out to personally attend
Ferguson, chatting to Neville and Beckham, gave a eulogy on behalf of Manchester United
Beckham wrote: 'Today we say goodbye to a great man. As I look back on what and who made me as a person and as a player, my dad, the Boss and Eric.
'I was stood one day in the cliff training ground in the reception just about to go to Annie Kay's house (my digs) and Neil Webb walks past me and out the door, then Eric walks down the stairs from his office and right up to me and says, 'You will replace him in the first team one day'.
'I smiled with excitement but I also thought that's not gonna happen any time soon and then it did.
'The Cliff training ground brings back so many memories as does Littleton road of Eric, 2 laps warm up, 5 ball routine, 12 minute run and the damn heading game which as you can imagine I did not like, but it was all about preparing us for the first team and preparing to play for Sir Alex Ferguson & Manchester United.
'David stop playing those Hollywood balls will forever be the words that stay in my head but then Eric has me kicking a ball against a wall 60 times with both feet from different distances and that became one of my biggest strengths.
Former Manchester United player Mark Hughes arrived to pay his respects at the funeral
Ex-United boss Ron Atkinson arrived and was joined by Manchester City legend Joe Royle (R)
Gordon Taylor (left) and former Manchester United assistant boss Brian Kidd (right) attended
Harrison (left) became one of English football's most influential coaches raising the Class of 92. From left to right: Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, David Beckham, Gary and Phil Neville, Paul Scholes and Terry Cooke.
'Ultimately it was The Boss that had that faith in us and took us to the next level but the person that prepared us and we wouldn't have been the players and men we turned out to be was Eric. Thank you Eric and goodbye.'
Neville also weighed in and wrote under a picture of himself and Harrison on his Instagram page: 'Today is the funeral of this great man. Your own success in life is dependent on many things.
'However the people you are surrounded by and the guidance and example they set for you to follow are critical. Your family, teachers, coaches, friends, work colleagues, boss and many others influence your outcome.
'At the age of 16 I was fortunate enough to join Manchester United full time. I was young, naive and in the hands of the coach. It's difficult to put into words what Eric did for me that would do it justice.
'He never let up from the minute we walked in to the minute we moved up. He grounded us everyday. He made me understand the importance of consistency and reliability.
Harrison during his days as a youth coach at Manchester United, during the early 1980s
Harrison (back left) went on to become one of the most influential coaches in English football
The former youth team coach on the training ground during his days with Manchester United
'A boss wants to know what his players are going to do. Always be there, always give their best and achieve the standard you've set yourself. He pushed us in training to a point of stress to know how far mentally and physically we could take ourselves.
'The match at weekend became the easy part, the fun and the reward for what you had done during the week.
'I still remember the moment he told me 'I had a chance'. What more can you ask for in life. I trusted him. I believed him. That's all I needed.
'Repetitive training drills everyday. The 5 ball routine where we passed between us for 20 mins accepting and receiving the ball in different ways, the teamshape (back 4 work for me) that made me understand my position, the 2 laps around Littleton rd to warm up everyday (2km), the shuttle runs on a Friday, the heading game!!!
'A game where you could only score with your head and you had to basically challenge each other aerially to score to ensure you had a competitive streak (why do you think my nose is like this!!), 1 v 1's all the time, man to man marking games and that moment on a Friday when he walked down into the corridor and put the A and B team up on the wall and you found out where you were playing (if you were playing) was nerve wracking.
Both sets of players engaged in a minute's applause as a tribute to United legend Harrison
Paul Pogba (left) and his Manchester United team-mates wore black armbands as a tribute
'My family gave me the base to build on, Sir Alex had the ultimate faith and courage to see it through but in between that it would have all fallen over if I hadn't met Eric Harrison. Thank you Eric.'
United's players, staff and supporters paid tribute to Harrison on Sunday ahead of their game against Liverpool.
Players wore black armbands and there was a minute's applause before kick-off as Old Trafford rose to their feet to pay respects to one of the club's most influential coaches of all time.
United boss Solskjaer paid tribute to Harrison in the pre-match programme.
The Norwegian wrote: 'Eric was a great man, an amazing coach and his legacy will live on through the standards he drove and the values he passed through generations of players.'
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