Councillors have approved plans to build more than 2,000 homes in the Hyde green belt despite thousands of objections from campaigners who asked whether the land was ‘precious’ or a ‘cash cow’.
The Manchester United cult hero who had to leave to be loved
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“In 2002, I was playing for Independiente and knew that Manchester United were interested in me; we had arranged a meeting. Then Middlesbrough approached my agent, they wanted to see me before United.
“Sir Alex Ferguson found out about this. One day I got a phone call while I was in the bathroom. My roommate was sleeping on the bed so I was quiet.
“I could understand English from a very early age, but I could barely understand the man on the phone. He was speaking really fast with a very strong accent. I made a great effort to understand and worked out that he wanted me to play for him.
"‘We want you,’ he said."
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Sir Alex Ferguson wasn't speaking with hyperbole when he made his sales pitch to Diego Forlan in the January transfer window of 2001.
Manchester United wanted to add extra firepower to a side which was over-reliant on the individual brilliance of Ruud van Nistelrooy in attack, there were few more promising than 22-year-old hopeful Forlan.
The young Uruguayan striker had netted 30 goals in 52 games in the Argentine championship and was ready to take the next step in a career, a career which at one stage had looked so unlikely.
Diego initially had no intentions of following in the footsteps of his father Pablo, a former defender who spent his career in South America, instead dreaming of pursuing his other love and becoming a professional tennis player.
Yet his decision to change sports was influenced by a tragic event on 14 September 1991 when his older sister was involved in a devastating car crash which killed her boyfriend and left herself permanently paralysed.
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