TERRACE TALK: Man United - A mystery how all three points escaped us

Thanks to the vagaries of the modern telly-tampered football calendar, you and I shan’t be meeting here again for three weeks.

That should be just about enough time for at least one of us to have worked out the precise answer to the question: How did United not win yesterday?

One of the elements in the explanatory equation, we must sportingly note, was the stunning display by the Stoke ‘keeper, of whom not even most Potters had heard before Sunday.