The American way: Highway for Rafa?

HOWDY Y’ALL.Excuse me for slipping into the vernacular for a cotton-picking minute. It’s obviously a direct result of reading all those tedious e-mail circulars.

They look remarkably similar to the ones that did the rounds when the Glazers were being smuggled into Old Trafford in tanks. They’re pretty much wasted on us; we’ve always been the more pragmatic of the two clubs.

We’re not doing cartwheels yet but there’s a sense of necessity that’s almost universally recognised.