I have an elderly client who is a big United fan and regularly tells me all about how he used to see Best play and how he was there when United won the European Cup. Tells me Best was indeed the best of all time. He's very lonely so I haven't had the heart to tell him I'm a Liverpool fan. I actually think he thinks I support United because I know so much about the current squad and was having an in depth conversation about the development prospects of Blackett, McNair and Wilson. I'm just a football nerd, honest

On the subject of development prospects, who needs Raheem Sterling anymore? He just got replaced! Have a prediction: Jordon Ibe will be in the England squad within a year. Old Manus will not be happy about it and insist Nathan Dyer is the One True King of Westeros. A front three of Sterling, Sturridge and Ibe makes me get entirely too excited for a Wednesday morning.