Terrace Talk: Man United - Write-offs up and running after being ‘Mourinho’d’

Sad-looking southerners shuffling about in dribs and drabs were everywhere in Manchester city centre on Saturday. They already looked beaten, and shrunk under the catcalls of locals. But enough of Conservatives attending their Party conference; how were the Super Eagles?

I daresay that by full time, Palace fans felt like Theresa May does most days, although at least Hodgson can dream of better days to come, once they get their current batch of impossible fixtures out of the way. At the risk of sounding smug post facto, I think 4-0 was roughly the kind of margin many bullish Reds were expecting, especially after the relative heroics of Moscow midweek.

I say “relative” because - notwithstanding the fact that CSKA aren’t that much better a side than Palace - the United performance in Russia was clearly a step up from what we’d seen over the previous few weeks. And for once, we could talk about a game without using the phrase “but we missed Pogba”.