Torrential rain. A defensive line high enough to have even Ange Postecoglou clutching his pearls. Nine goals, three of them penalties, one of them turned into his own net by a defender and another an unrepeatable freak accident. Three goalkeeping howlers, two of them perpetrated by a man who retired last August. Some breathtaking saves. An amazing comeback. An extremely late winner followed by a VAR check that threatened to not only chalk it off, but award a penalty at the other end. A very public post-match dressing-down harking back to the Phil Brown b@nter era and an opportunity to further riff on the misery of Manchester United, even though they weren’t playing.
If you want I can be delusional and say different things. I say it as I see it” – Ruben Amorim is not going to stop being critical of his Manchester United team, which is great news for tea-timely emails, but perhaps not such good news for dressing-room TVs.
It’s easy to mock David Beckham for his celebrity, his desperation to get a knighthood and his hagiographic documentary (trying to rewrite history and convince us that he was the ‘star’ player in the 1990s Manchester United teams, not Eric Cantona initially, then Roy Keane and David May, and that he was the player that drove the ‘galactico’ Real Madrid to the league after initially being excluded from the first team), but if you had told me back in 1996 when he scored that goal against Wimbledon that the squeeky-voiced young lad dating a Spice girl would end up speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, I wouldn’t have believed you. As L.P. Hartley said, ‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there’” – Noble Francis.
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