A wild ride took everyone back where they had started. The one certainty arising from an affair of low quality and, from nowhere, scarcely credible drama was that only a fool would hang their hat on Tottenham or
They had been so close to throwing it all away, fading badly in the final half hour. Their recidivist tendencies are yet to abate even if they are nowhere near as disaster-prone as in the earlier stages of Ruben Amorim’s reign. His substitutes could not offer the legs or cohesion that Frank’s replacements, some of which the home crowd audibly disapproved, eventually mustered and they still look some way short of producing regular 90-minute performances. Amorim’s admission afterwards that United dropped off through feeling too comfortable was mildly damning.
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