One might imagine that, given the background and potential importance of the fixture, Manchester United’s top brass would have been at Watford in big numbers on Saturday.
But no. Agenda understands neither Ed Woodward nor the man touted as his successor, Richard Arnold, were at Vicarage Road as the club lurched to another low under their watch.
The 4-1 drubbing confirmed what everybody outside the Old Trafford corridors of power already knew and it was Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s final game in charge.
The absence of executive vice chairman Woodward raised eyebrows, given he is the key decision-maker and is based in Barnes, south-west London, which is hardly a million miles from Watford.