Liam Mackey: You don’t hear much about the magic of the cup anymore

SO, it was Man United against lower league opposition in the Cup, and it was a six-goal winning margin to boot but, really, it was the mud what done it.

As the bespattered red shirts gave Ole Gunnar Solskjaer some shelter from the storm by thrashing Tranmere Rovers last weekend, it was the more-muck-than-grass pitch, hemmed in by a crammed-to-bursting point Prenton Park, which almost made it seem as if the last 50 years had never happened.