David Jones

But all of you will remember, you're technical specialists about how the game was won at Wembley.

But what any decent chronicler, any decent teller of tales can do...

is compile the outpouring of amazement and adoration.

So let's start with things that you know, but I want to put emphasis on it.

Remember, you can't hear it in my beautiful Spanish accent now, but I was born and brought up in Aberdeen.

I grew up watching Aberdeen years before Alex Ferguson came to the club that I love.

And I witnessed him take Aberdeen from 1978-79 onwards and make them, you know, by 1983, UEFA ranked number one.

Number one.

And, you know, in 2009, which we're not talking about at the moment, he said that his team was beaten by Barcelona after nine minutes, when Eto'o scored after nine minutes.

And at the end of Wembley, when we knew that it was likely that several of his players, and maybe he himself, were drawing to a close of the way in which they'd dominated Europe...

His phrase was, Dave, nobody's given us a hiding like that.

So when we titled it, frankly, it was about the brand of football.

It wasn't braggadocio.

It wasn't comparing to other areas and saying you were worse.

But when you heard Beckenbauer and Hitzfeldt and Jus Fontaine and Ferguson and Capello...

literally pouring syrup all over the quality of performance that Barcelona had shown at Wembley and saying they'd never seen anything like it.

When you listen to the United players talking about facing that side, I think the word greatest was allowed to be used, I think.

They don't think so.

In terms of five-star beauty, yes.

But without a hint of disrespect to Manchester United, from either me or from them, they all think that Real Madrid were the second best team in the tournament that year.