Terrace Talk: Man United - Painful dose of reality will sting for some time

You know the expression “to have your arse handed to you on a plate”?

Last night, Arsenal not only did that to us, but had the time and skill to dice it up, sauté it in a jus of superiority, and dress it all up in edible gold leaf before serving. Arsène Wenger has just won ‘Masterchef’, and in doing so made LVG look like a third-rate Dutch-pancake-flogging carny. One would suggest Louis should now put his head in an oven, but it probably wouldn’t fit.

Some suspected this might be coming. Last week, I doomily wrote: “Why doesn’t going top feel better than it does? Perhaps Arsenal will show us why next Sunday...now that they have finally clicked. There are quite a few Reds around who have already decided that the sooner LVG has his philosophy beaten out of him, the better, and who may quietly consider that a good kicking from someone like Arsenal would be just what the doctor ordered.”