Roonaldo: How Sir Alex Ferguson built his greatest ever Manchester United side

Absolutely. Of all the sides that have come and gone since then there has never been a side that has played such attractive football and been so easy on the eye.

 

Almost certainly.

To go from being beaten heavily beaten in the groups on our last appearance before the rule was lifted to the semi finals in our first appearance after shows just how much of a barrier it was. Particularly when you consider how many foreign players were in English teams before the rule - Liverpool had 11 non English players in their squad in 85 and ten in 84.