‘We’re used to winning at Manchester United, you know? The scrutiny is different to what you’re used to. Everyone looks at you differently when you’re at Manchester United and when you’re winning like us and the standards we’ve got. Everyone wants to beat you, everyone wants a piece of you, everyone wants to criticise you, everyone’s after you.’ I still can’t believe, even now, how stupid my reply was to Sir Alex’s emotive portrait of Manchester United. ‘Similar to Chelsea,’ I said. Chelsea had won the title for the last two years and I was just thinking as champions everybody also wanted to
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