And the So, It's been hot and sunny. Yeah, it's been extraordinarily lovely weather and I spent the first good chunk of it not even

thinking about football I I basically completely missed the Tiago saga and

hop back in just in time for Fabrogas nonsense to start in earnest.

How's your summer been, Ed?

Well, it's been a saga wrapped in a saga, hasn't it?

And then a little bit of a saga on top.

I thought the saga was an association for old people.

Yeah, it is. Alex Ferguson has retired now and so he's joined Saga, so all our transfers are a SAG.

This is not going to work as an analogy.

It's not working, is it? Yeah, my son has been pretty good, equally enjoying the weather,

enjoying being in the country, rather than globe-trossing around the world world which has been a pleasure unlike United's team which has done about 25,000 miles all in the name of good preparation.

I mean it's crazy it's obviously crazy to spend that much time on planes during

preseason but we know this is the way it is now and the players seem to enjoy it and

fans all you know there's some there are some good things to it it must be lovely if

you're a really devoted Manchester United fan in the parts of the world where they

travel to on tour must be wonderful for you to get to see them. There was a point in which United, and a United

11, which was pretty high-strength side actually played Creu-Alexander, and I was thinking

now that's pre-season. Creu Alexander, them and new Ventus, those are the acceptable teams to play in pre-season, the rest of it I'm not sure about.

We managed to lose to the singer-all-stars, Ed.

Yeah, it wasn't good. I remember the time when United used to tour tour Scandinavia and maybe the odd trip to Ireland

that was about as exotic as it got.

Although someone did send me a very nice link over the summer, a tour in the 1950s to the United States where they played about 12 games to about three months

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