The match started on Wednesday and ended on Thursday: an all-English end-game, transposed to Moscow, the home town of Roman Abramovich, whose splurge on a west London football club jerked Manchester United back into full competitive life.
Two men wept that night: Cristiano Ronaldo, overcome by relief and joy, and John Terry, out of a hopeless surrender to the boy inside, a child seldom seen. Ronaldo was to become the world's most expensive footballer, joining Real Madrid for £80m, and Terry, the hard-man thespian, had found the real red heart of melodrama. "Every morning I wake up and it's the
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