LONDON -- Somewhere on this planet the man working for Decca Records 40 years ago who told the Beatles they wouldn't make it and should try another career, may still be alive.

Christopher Davies

As rejections go that will take some beating, but the assertion by Sir Roy Gardner, chairman of Manchester United, that his club did not think Damien Duff was worth the £17 million Chelsea paid Blackburn for the winger last summer could come back to haunt the Premiership champion on Sunday.