UEFA let you register 23 men for a Super Cup.
I have got 28 fit ones.
That is the entire Monday. That is not a team sheet, it is 5 men who won a European trophy in May being told on a Monday morning that they are not getting on a plane to a European final, and there is no version of that conversation that is any good.
[UEFA SUPER CUP. SQUAD REGISTRATION.]
[AVAILABLE: 28. SLOTS: 23.]
Clk.
Sarah put the sheet in front of me at 20 past 8 with 28 names on it and no marks against any of them.
"I have built that 23 four times since Saturday and I have got a different 5 out of it every time," she said. "So I have stopped. It is yours."
[UEFA SUPER CUP. SQUAD: 23. BENCH: 12. SUBSTITUTIONS: 3, PLUS 1 IN EXTRA TIME.]
12 on a bench. Not 7.
UEFA changed that in March, in a paragraph at the bottom of a regulations document, and Sarah read it on the 22nd and told me in a corridor and nobody else in England noticed.
