"Right, be quick. I've only got a few minutes."
Sir Alex Ferguson didn't have much time for paper talk two days before Manchester United 's seismic clash with Arsenal in their penultimate game of the 2001-02 Premier League season.
The Red Devils had surprisingly crashed out of the Champions League at the semi-final stage to Bayer Leverkusen the week prior and needed to beat Arsene Wenger 's side to take the title race down to the final day. It'd been a frustrating campaign for Ferguson's men, who'd been tipped to begin a new era of European dominance after splashing out a club-record £28.1million to sign Juan Sebastian Veron from Lazio.
