Terrace Talk Manchester United: Rooney and RVP prove they’re in sweet harmony

You hear a lot of sentences around Old Trafford starting “it’s only....” these days. “It’s only Sociedad/Sunderland/Norwich,” comes the grumble, after Moyes’ team has disposed of someone its critics don’t rate as “meaningful” opposition.

You heard it again after Saturday — “it’s only Fulham” — and, to be fair, the Cottagers were clearly never going to be the hardest match we have this week.

Tomorrow we’re in Spain for a game that, although no longer looking as intimidating as it did back when the draw was made, is still going to test our resurgent lads to a greater extent than the often wretched Fulham managed. And next weekend comes a confrontation that is probably going to attract portentous comment of every stripe, setting up a game of cliché-klaxon bingo: beating Arsenal would be some sort of ‘coming of age, turning point’, while losing will see chickens roosting upon a deepening crisis as we teeter on the edge of an abyss. (Or something equally physically unlikely.)