The dream factory

WHEW! Say what you like, but the patrons certainly don’t lack for entertainment and drama at the Theatre of Dreams.

And, for the regulars, this edge-of-the-seat blockbuster even had a happy ending, Wayne Rooney’s goal in the first minute of injury time sending the red faithful home in raptures.

The only problem is that we haven’t reached the end at all. This is just the interval and, after a rip-roaring first act at Old Trafford, the reviews this morning are bound to stress that it could still be very much advantage Milan in the San Siro next week.