Damnable day actually turned uglier at full-time

THE biggest groan of the day on Saturday would not have been the one produced by the Kop when Chich’s goal went in but that which emanated from United fans seeing the team sheet for the first time.

What a miserable, wretched, cringing selection that was.

Ferguson had gone into the game calling this the “biggest match in the world” but apparently he was just up to his mind games: it was simply a warm-up session for last night, or so we must conclude from the sight of United’s finest players — Rooney, Nani and Hernandez — warming the bench.