Richard Kurt looks back on Manchester United’s victory over Arsenal.

Cue jaunty ’70s Americana theme tune. Previously, on last week’s episode of Soap: “Derby, Stoke, and Chelsea are all either poor sides or in poor form, so we shouldn’t get carried away... we just don’t want to see any trace of the ancien régime again.”

A fortnight ago, pondering ‘The LVG Question’ then being universally asked, I cautioned: “One might suggest waiting until the Derby County match to come to a conclusive judgement” about whether the crowd had finally, definitively turned. That night, the lads provided an answer of sorts: “Not quite yet, pal.”