Sweet revenge will drive United

The Premier League,apparently, isn’t the only table Manchester clubs have been competing over lately.

Quite close to the clubs’ separate training bases in Carrington, there is a café that players and staff of both United and City like to frequent. And, over the last few years, there has been an unsaid acceptance that, well, one corner is red and the other blue.

Except, at one point last season, a significant City employee decided to go against diplomacy and occupy United’s area. It was seen as another little mind game, another small but significant statement.