TERRACE TALK: Manchester United: We didn’t deserve it but Daley delivers for lucky Luis

Every few weeks, I check back on my previous columns to see if I’ve made any howlers I’ll need to wheedle out of — such as calling Blind ‘Danny’ last week, for example. (Thank you, Word AutoCorrect).

I was equally pained to note two other things that I’d actually got right. One was a prediction that we’d do no significant transfer window business. The other was this, previewing yesterday’s game: “our ever-shifting defence — be it a 3, 4 or 5 — can still expect plenty of the airborne and deadball action they have come to hate. As Louis would say: twitchy ass time.”

The first-half duly provided an object lesson in how to give a visiting defence a twitchy ass via the air and set-pieces, capped by West Ham’s corner-derived goal just after the break.