TERRACE TALK: Manchester United - Time to restart the choir: United are back, woah-oh

Gasp! I’m writing this ten minutes after the final whistle and I can barely type. Not, for once, because I’ve been overdoing the sauce, but because my entire being seems to be buzzing uncontrollably.

What a feast to put before the city, the nation and the world; and what a way to satisfy an appetite that we had been manically stoking all week long.

Make no mistake — and I swear to you this is not the hindsight talking — we Reds had been hungering to devour this one more than any derby in recent years.