Please forgive the repetition. You will have read a version of this before. Let’s just call it Episode 458 — one for every week since they last won the title — in the ongoing saga: ‘What the hell is going on at Manchester United and how is it possible that things keep getting worse?’
The capacity of a club, once a byword for excellence, to surprise us with their weakness, mediocrity, chaos, lack of leadership and general sense of dysfunction knows no bounds. They can’t even get the hot dogs ready at half-time at Old Trafford any more.