The timing of the completion of Sir Jim Ratcliffe's £1.25billion deal to buy 25 per cent of Manchester United was exquisite. I have no idea if Britain's second richest man has a God complex but when it was Christmas Eve that brought confirmation of his investment in England's most famous football club, it certainly made it look that way.
The saviour-symbolism was so obvious that the press release might as well have been etched on a stained-glass window.
United need a saviour. No one is about to dispute that.