Losing sight of ‘United way’ leads to disaster

Matt Busby once wrote in Soccer At The Top: “If anything is to be gained from football, it is to be gained bywinning or losing with dignity. If there are nations whose people so losethemselves in their emotions as to encourage the thug and the cheat they can be educated only by example.”

I see football, and United in particular, via this prism. Sometimes it’s hard to get someone who is passionate and devoted to step back and see that football isn’t about winning; it’s about how you win. Or, even morepertinently this week, how you lose.

And Monday night, I am afraid, was an exemplar of how not to do it.