When I think of Juventus, it immediately brings back fond, but sobering, memories of my time at Manchester United during the mid-1990s when we were growing as a team and learning all about how to succeed in the Champions League. Juventus were the benchmark, with Marcelo Lippi's team reaching three consecutive finals during that period, and we came up against them eight times in the space of seven years. We measured ourselves against them and I still look back on the team of Alessandro del Piero, Zinedine, Zidane, Alen Boksic and Didier Deschamps as the best I ever faced. They had everything that I would love to have in my team.
