Gilesy applies spirit level to United

Many people were agitated on Wednesday evening, but to many others there was great comfort on offer on RTE 2.

To the vast swathes of the population who took a sabbatical from the Champions League last season, who suddenly found the whole thing a sideshow from the bread and butter; these people, these followers of Man United, must have taken great solace in finding nothing much had changed while they were away.

But we should deal with the agitation first, which was quite evident across places like Twitter.