Alex Ferguson dies and enters the Pearly Gates, God takes him on tour. He shows Alex a little two-room house with a faded united banner hanging from the front porch. This is your house, Alex. Alex looks at the house, then turns around and looks at the one sitting on top of the hill. It's a huge three-story mansion with white marble columns and little patios under all the windows.
City flags line both sides of the driveway and a huge city banner hangs between the marble columns.
All the way up the drive are huge statues of great city players from history. Thanks for the house, God. But let me ask you a question. I get this little two-room house with a faded banner and Joe Royle gets a huge mansion with banners and flags flying all over the place. God looks at Alex seriously for a moment.