We were based at the home of Western Australian cricket, The WACA, basking in the Perth sunshine and shaking off the jetlag which had been caused by a 16-hour flight from Manchester. United were training for a couple of hours just yards away and, as a lifelong Reds obsessive, it’s a genuine thrill to watch those sessions.
But, in all honestly, none of that sticks out in my mind.
My abiding memory of that July morning was an interview Scott McTominay gave to us in the stand, while he was drenched in sweat and literally still panting from an intense session that had just finished moments earlier.