said Vincent Kompany.
To be brutally honest, I only applied for a ticket for the match out of some warped sense of duty. Out of habit. When the unthinkable happened, and the ballot results revealed I was successful (I think the only other away ticket I got that season was Huddersfield in the cup), I had to face up to a stark reality: I'd rather be slugging back absinthe in a dark room than watch Pep Guardiola's brilliant side stroll to victory and win the league.
But, of course, I went. Holding on to that hope that United would produce something to defy them.