WE ARE PRETTY GOOD

Last updated : 23 June 2003 By Editor

From Florentino Perez's interview in The Observer:

"Perez adds, rather surprisingly, that he would like to proposed that fans of Manchester United be awarded the Prince of Asturias, a sort of spanish nobel prize awarded each year. Why?

"Its hard to come across fans like that. Truly. How they support their own team but then they are also so generous in recognising the merits of their rivals. I saw not only the entire stadium but also the chairman, Martin Edwards, and his board of directors applauding Ronaldo off the pitch."

"In the same way that Ronaldo said afterwards he would never forget it, I won't either. That's the kind of thing that encourages you to keep going in football, because football is rivalry, its passion, but it's also about the exaltation of these great human values the game brings out in people."