While we're living the dreams we have as children fade away'. Not if you support United!

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

I can't stand Liverpool. I can't stand the people. I can't stand anything to do with them.

As football gets more globalized, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

I'd say Carrick has the qualities of a Scholes, Andrea Pirlo and Sergio Busquets.

There are only four trophies available to win at the start of every season and there will be some big teams this year who won't win one at all.