TERRACE TALK: Man United - Players becoming ‘Van Gaaled’

Do you immediately know what is meant by the phrase ‘Olympiakos moment’? I suspect you may well do — especially after United’s catastrophically awful display at Anfield on Thursday, when the fateful words sprang to many a Red lip.

For the remaining uninitiated, it speaks of the 2014 evening in Greece when the United board secretly decided poor David Moyes would have to be sacked, with only the exact timing to be determined.

Moyes plodded on, blissfully unaware, for several further weeks, and even enjoyed a couple of excellent victories before Goodison Gotterdammerung enveloped him.