Perfect? Just wide of the mark

“I’VE just been listening to a foaming-mouthed BBC reporter describe this past United month as “the perfect start”.

A classic case of that 21st century disease ‘kneejerkus hyperbolism’ if ever there was one, perhaps?

Yet the trouble is, I’m finding it hard to pick too many holes in that: short of a second goal in Lisbon, what more could we have wanted? Sunday was perhaps the most absurdly entertaining 90 minutes I have seen at Old Trafford since, oooh...the week before.