When Alex Ferguson was in the middle of a slow recuperation following the life -saving brain surgery four years ago, two fragments of life invaded his subconscious on a nightly basis; a commentator announcing a David Beckham corner and, more mystifyingly the catchy chorus from the Tra-La-La song, the 1969 absurdist hit by The Banana Splits. Night after night, both sounds returned to him.
Ferguson is not an obvious candidate for dream interpretation but he quickly deduced that the first sound was a calling to the fabled night in the Nou Camp in 1999, when his United team scored two goals from corner kicks to win the European Cup final against a shell-shocked Bayern side. He could offer no reason as to why The Banana Splits were following him through the twilight.
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- March 19, 2022
