TERRACE TALK: Man United - Too early to forecast a bright new dawn

Reds of two different types were standing by at lunchtime on Saturday, waiting for potentially epochal news stories to drop in the northwest of England.

Over in Liverpool, there were desperate members hoping against hope that an aged and destructive leader might be about to be deposed. Whilst over at Old Trafford...ah, I sense you saw that one coming. As one colleague quipped: “Neither Corbyn nor Rooney is really suited for the No. 10 role.”

Jezza survived his opponents’ coup attempt, but Wazza did not. And unattractive though it is to crow over the defenestration of someone who, in his time, has been a good servant to the cause, it was hard to resist for many Reds.