It'll still, even now, take a lot to make amends for Tin Machine.
I liked Tin Machine... Reeves Gabrels on guitar is some awesome sounding stuff, in fact I'd go as far as to say that in some ways it was a pre-cursor to Never mind but.... there you go..
Listen to it again, thats pre-grunge grunge that is.... seriously... do it... tell me I'm wrong...
As for Torres, it's churlish to allow the betrayal to colour what was a truly monumental career with us, he was fucking sick and I loved having the best striker in the world in our team. IMO however good we were last season we still didnt have the same wow factor as Masher, Alonso, Torres and Stevie in their pomp...
Even after 3 years of betrayal when he had long before become a complete no-mark I noticed that he didn't score but rather lay it of for Chelsea's second last season... we can rewrite history and claim that he was totally disloyal but the truth is we were in deep financial shit and everyone knew it... we could even be blind and say that being sold for 50M was a selfless act of a true red who knew he had been crocked too often playing for Spain... yeah... I know...that's how much I loved that fella...
It's a tragedy what happened with Fernando and it's masochism to forgive him but I'm not so bitter as to hate him.... whats the point...