Younger United fans shocked by their side’s winless start at home in the new Premier League season can be relieved they can’t remember as far back as 1972/73.
United have failed to win any of their first three Premier League fixtures at Old Trafford this season, but forty-eight years ago, it was much, much worse. They took six matches before before recording their first league victory at home. It was also their first in the league anywhere, at the tenth time of asking.
Two of the Holy Trinity, Charlton and Law were approaching the ends of their careers and a troubled George Best had already begun his meanderings.