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Pre-season for Manchester United began shortly before midnight, Moscow time, on May 21. By Henry Winter, Football Correspondent On the ball: Rio Ferdinand is focused on Man Utd retaining the Champions League Photo: EPA The European champions were sitting, victorious, in their Luzhniki dressing room after that momentous final against Chelsea, their hair still wet with French bubbly and Russian rain, when talk turned to how they could become true greats of the game. "I was sitting with Michael Carrick and Owen Hargreaves and we said to each other that we wanted to go out and achieve it again as soon as possible,'' Rio Ferdinand recalled yesterday. "We just said we had to get back there again. Ryan Giggs said he had had to wait nine years for his second one [after United's success in 1999] and I thought straight away that I have... [read full story]
