Departures at Manchester Airport, summer 2001. Alfie Haaland is on his way to Ohio, where a specialist awaits at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic to perform surgery on a knee complaint.
A member of the public mutters something in his direction. It's football-related and presumably has something to do with the recent Manchester derby at Old Trafford.
The Manchester City captain turns. 'Yeah, I'll just get Roy Keane's studs out of my knee,' he says, still sore from the assault inflicted by his Manchester United counterpart in late April.