straight to your inbox every day for freeIt’s an early Sunday evening in M16 and the rain is barrelling down from slate grey skies.
Monday morning and a return to work is closing in.It sounds like a bleak scene, but around a patch of grass illuminated by golden floodlights, there is a crackle of electricity in the air. Here the rain only serves to heighten the senses.
For the last two hours 73,288 people have sat, stood, screamed, sang, swore and swayed. The Manchester derby has just finished in a crescendo at Old Trafford and it’s the home side who have bragging rights.That event you’d been waiting for all weekend has proved to be worth it. It was better than your wildest dreams - with apologies to the 3,000 or so Manchester City fans.
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