Witness Sir Alex Ferguson and P Diddy, pictured in Copenhagen this week at a convention for people with God complexes. Hang on, do forgive me. Sir Alex was preparing for Manchester United's Champions League clash against FC Copenhagen on Wednesday, while Diddy was in town to phone in some - no doubt entirely sampled - number at last night's MTV European Music awards.
Only this June, Rio Ferdinand declared: "The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand." (Aren't you forgetting something, son?) And it was apparently the Renaissance defender himself who orchestrated the half-hour encounter between his boss and his old pal.
Look closely at the picture. Were it possible to distil everything that is right about football today into a single image, would this be it? Does it not give the lie to Diddy's erstwhile assertion that mo money creates mo problems? Is Sir Alex ... Jesus, is he attempting some kind of hand-styling there?
It could hardly be less relevant, of course, but Man United lost 1-0.
