The Ryanair flight to Barcelona was the rowdiest this correspondent has experienced for a European away. It is half-term in Greater Manchester this week and some of the lads barely looked out of school.
"Taking over Barcelona," a few sang after their boarding passes were scanned. They were not born when that chant was first hollered on Las Ramblas in 1999.
An air stewardess pleaded for silence in vain. A young child was undeterred by the boisterousness and expletives. The average age of the assembled United supporters had to have been the mid-20s at the oldest, an impressionable age.
