The year was 2004. A then-8-year-old Irene Liao walked into a Nike store in Taiwan and saw a life-size cardboard cutout of Michael Jordan. She knew she had to have it.I ended up buying him for around 200nt, which is six U.S. dollars, and dragging him out of the store with me, Liao told ESPN.Liao shared these memories on Twitter this week, remembering the good times her and her former best friend shared together.?For about a month, Liao says, the two were inseparable. Liao took the GOAT everywhere -- to the grocery store, to the metro, even to her piano lessons.Eventually, though, my teacher sent me home with a note and said that this was such an unhealthy phase, Liao said. 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On Saturday, it was fitting that Manchester Uniteds most recent dagger into the chest was delivered by Frenchman Yohan Cabaye, a wonderfully gifted central midfielder who put on an outstanding effort for Newcastle at Old Trafford.England skipper Eoin Morgan says there is no question of any players being rested for this weekends pair of Twenty20 internationals against South Africa. Instead, Morgan wants the first-choice side to register a morale-boosting pair of victories ahead of next months ICC World Twenty20.The tourists will face South Africa in Cape Town on Friday before the second match takes place in Johannesburg on Sunday. And the sides will then meet again next month in a World Twenty20 group stage match in Mumbai.Our best team at the moment, were very close to selecting it or having a really good idea of what it is, said Morgan.Which is good, considering were a few weeks out from a World Cup.Nobody will be rested over the next two games. They are games we really want to win.Twenty20 is very funny in that regard. When momentum is with you, it can be very kind, but also if youre struggling to gain it, it can be brutal.If youre trying to turn round momentum, and gain wins, its a terrible game.But if you have momentum with you, everything seems to click.It has been suggested that England have more potential match-winners with bat than ball but Morgan disputes that suggestion. Morgan is happy to have spinners Moeen Ali (left) and Adil Rashid (right) Paceman Steven Finn remains absent but the captain has plenty of faith in spinners Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali, and left-arm seamers Reece Topley and David Willey.I think this attaack can win games for us, said Morgan.ddddddddddddWith the spin department covered, and the two left-armers coming in and being a threat up front, it adds a huge dynamic to our game.A big strength is the fact we do bat deep. But with these strings to our bow (with the ball), it makes us a bigger threat.Morgan could only manage scores of eight, two and two in the final three matches of the one-day series but returned to form on Wednesday with 42 from just 13 balls in the warm-up match against South Africa A.I havent felt out of form, just short on runs, and it was nice to come in and play with the freedom I like playing with, he said.Id like to come out and score some runs in these next two games. It might happen, it might not but Ill stay true to whats worked for me in recent times.That has come with experience.Watch the first Twenty20 international between South Africa and England live on Sky Sports 2 this Friday from 3.30pm.Before then, do not miss South Africa Women take on England Women in their second T20 from 11.25am on Friday, also on Sky Sports 2. Get a Sky Sports Day Pass Dont miss South Africa v England. Watch live on NOW TV for ￡6.99. 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