The cold blast hits you as soon as you step off the plane. It is unseasonably mild, apparently, but the locals have had to dig trenches out of the snow to create a walkway to the terminal. Welcome to Ostersund, 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle, the remotest outpost in Sweden’s top flight and the latest stop in the career of a prodigiously gifted footballer once described by Sir Alex Ferguson as “the best kid you will ever see”.

This is not where Ferguson or anyone else imagined that Ravel Morrison would find himself at this stage of his life. A decade ago, when he was outshining Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard in the Manchester United youth team, nobody was quite sure whether he