It is 50 years since Manchester United were relegated
Legend has it that the great Denis Law sent his old club down with a backheeled goal for Manchester City that he didn't celebrate.
The truth was slightly different as United were doomed in 1973-74 if Law had scored or not.
As time moved on and English top flight football came to be dominated by high finance - and United were able to generate more of it than anyone else - no-one remotely thought history might repeat itself.
We have long got used to United not being what they were but this season has been something else, and Monday's game - against a Newcastle side who ripped their hosts apart for half an hour - led to head coach Ruben Amorim uttering words it was scarcely believed imaginable.