The English Football Diary - E03: Manchester United – Juventus 3,219,09 kilometers, 4 games, a British football diary

Tarantino debuts on the big screen "Reservoir Dogs", The Cure publish "Wish" and Prince Charles and Lady Diana separate after 11 years of marriage. David Beckham, Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville, Phil Neville and Paul Scholes begin a long career at United and in mid-November, the 14th exactly, I was born. I am 7 years old when I am given the first soccer jersey, but still for some time I will continue to prefer the blue Penny Hardaway jersey, who were playing for Orlando Magic at the time, and the basket ball. My companions, however, already buy cleats and go all together to play after school. Then I decide to try and I like it. Well, now I am 25 and I still cannot identify what was the exact moment of my life when I passed the line that separates the passion for football and mania. The first time at San Siro, a few games at the old Delle Alpi in Turin. Once you begin, it’s never enough. In France, Germany, Spain, Portugal. But you want more and more. You get back home after a day at the stadium and the only thing you think is "where next?". The next one is at Old Trafford and I feel like a baby.

Heaven is the home of the Red Devils

And now what? I've been waiting for you for a month and it's all over. 

The moment I hate the most is the exit from the stadium. It enshrines the end of an incredible experience, of a spasmodic expectation transformed then into anxiety, agitation, excitement, ecstasy and sadness. Will I ever come back? Is there another field like this? For history, tradition, grandeur. United fans argue that football was born here, precisely in 1992, with those six devils who marked the history of English and European football, from the youth team to the first team in the same season. On the bench Sir Alex Ferguson. If football wasn't born here, it sure became great. 

I come home, destroyed but in heaven. I was right to take off the blue Penny Hardaway jersey to put that old striped soccer jersey.