Kids give cause for self-belief
The front page carried a picture of beaming newbie Young captioned ‘United off to a flyer!’, whilst page 3 featured Alan Hansen chuntering that ‘United are hardly off to a flyer....’
The ex-LFC man did at least have the grace to make a joke about his past misjudgements of young United teams — “you’ll never win owt with kids”, and it never gets old does it? — but there’ll have been a fair few Redssharing his misgivings about De Gea, and the fact that he plays behind a very inexperienced back four over the next few weeks.