A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

Chris Dunlavy

MANCHESTER United’s titlewinning side of 1996 famously disproved the old adage that you can’t win anything with kids.
At least that’s the myth. In reality, the quote that made such a mug of Alan Hansen generally holds true.
It just so happened that the kids in question were David Beckham, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt - a freakish crop of exceptional players who would form the bulwark of England’s national side for a generation.
In the quarter of a century since their emergence no other club has...