MANCHESTER, England -- "That's more like it," said the presenter as he opened MUTV's half-time coverage of Burnley's visit to Old Trafford on Thursday, and you could almost hear the relief spill out of the TVs dotted around the stadium.
The past 12 months have been a tough sell for Manchester United's in-house channel. It is, after all, difficult to put a positive spin on defeat in a European final, total humiliation at home to Liverpool and a run of form so damaging it forced the sacking of club legend Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.