[Team hotel, Pittsburgh. Thursday 26 July 2018. 06:20.]
Marcus Reid had not been to bed.
I found him at 20 past 6 in a function room on the mezzanine with 3 laptops, 4 empty cans and the curtains still shut, and a projector throwing our shape onto a wall somebody had hired him for 400 dollars.
"Do not start with the cans."
"I was not going to start with the cans."
"You were looking at the cans." He did not turn round. "Sit down, boss. I have got 90 minutes of it and you are going to want all 90."
Bray came in at half 6 with 2 coffees and gave me neither of them. He does set pieces at this football club and he has never once been early for anything that was not a corner. Rebecca at 7 with a tablet. Michael Steele at 5 past, who sat at the back and did not take his coat off.
