Contemplating the not quite full English

I DIDN’T see the man from the Manchester Evening News in the aftermath of Tuesday night’s defeat of Barcelona.

Which is probably just as well — his beaming smile would almost certainly have blinded me.

On the day of the game, he’d used his newspaper column to mock those uppity London scribes who’d dared to suggest that, after the Nou Camp and Stamford Bridge, the presumed God-like genius of Alex Ferguson might be open to reappraisal.