The roars cascaded around the roof of the Stretford End and up into the higher reaches of the Sir Alex Ferguson stand. Doubtless, the acclamation would have been heard loud and clear as that chorus of voices carried over the Ship Canal and on to Salford Shopping Centre. To be honest, they were probably audible in Pendlebury, Radcliffe and on to Bury.
Football fans were back. And, it would easy to say, so were Manchester United, except that one opening day bonanza does not a season make. Yet, on a momentous day, when a full house of 72,000 returned to the Premier League for the first time since March 2020, how those fans made themselves heard.