Parker on MNU season

Of course it is. It's the second biggest trophy in Europe.

Of course it's going to be off the back of what has been a poor season, but they can jump around and do everything. If they do win it, I hope there's not an Open top bus or anything like that. You have to enjoy winning a trophy.

You have to enjoy it, even if it's been a bad league season. You're judging anything in football or in life, is the things over a period of time. Manchester United, over a period of nine months of a season, nine and a half months, have been terrible.

And that's the bit the manager will look at. He'll enjoy this if he does get to the final, and enjoy it even more if he wins the final. But he knows himself that his league campaign has been a disgrace for a club of this standard.

So once Europe's done, it's done and it's forgotten, as far as I'm concerned, if you're Manchester United, you don't go out and try and sell this out there on PR terms and marketing on that side.

Paul Parker was speaking to Sports Mole on behalf of Betano