Inspiration...
A fter 82 days - days spent contemplating the future of my club, as the joy of reaching the historic number 19 landmark was swiftly swept into insignificance as Europe's elite embarrassed our champions...and as, perhaps more significantly, our noisy, once disregarded neighbours were suddenly regarded as a threat - marching up the Stretford End, like a drunk climbing up some scaffolding at 3am - little idea of how he got there - and removing the '35 Years' banner. And as we prepared for the new campaign knowing City and their billions will strengthen, knowing Barcelona will undoubtedly (somehow) improve; we also knew we would be without the rock between the post who finally and convincingly replaced Schmeichel , as well as those fledglings that are finally and rather suddenly beginning to dismantle: Neville, O'Shea, Brown... and the greatest of all ... After 82 days - days spent witnessing the typical summer madness surrounding established marquee names from the world of