BOBBY ON THIS SEASON

"It hurts the manager, the players, it hurts us and it hurts the fans too. The
quicker we can get back into it the better," said the World Cup winner.

Charlton also said: "It'll be tough. There are a lot of teams now that are going
about their preparations much better than they used to and it will be tough.

"But we will have one of the fresher teams when we start - all of them have
had a rest. The French and the Argentineans were eliminated early and Roy
Keane for different reasons didn't play."

"It's a season of great expectation for us," said Sir Bobby. "We always want to
win everything that we go in for.

"We have a new coach, we have Sir Alex staying with us, we have some new
players and I am looking forward to it,"

So are we.