I had a bit of fun at work today, casually suggesting at just the right pitch to be within earshot of a certain colleague that if City do win the Champions League on Saturday then - after Centurions season, a domestic clean sweep and now, hopefully, a European treble - there can be no argument but we're witnessing the best English club side of all time...
Bang on cue: "that's not the *real* treble blah, blah, blah..."
"Why have your beloved United ever won a European treble..?"
Oh, the splutters, the coughing and choking the red-faced indignation that accompanied the reply...
"19...! 19...! 1999!!"
"Yeah, but I meant in *this* century..."
Like shooting fish in a barrel really.
Shut him right up last week when I dismissed the Europa League Final as the Remedial Class Cup too.