Updates from the 8pm GMT kick-off at Old Trafford
These days, I can’t think about Manchester United without also thinking about the hair guy. You know the one. He vowed not to trim his locks until United won five games in a row; that was now 436 days ago. Poor Frank. He may have earned plenty of followers with this stunt but he still has to walk around with that ludicrous Beefeater barnet, the living embodiment of his beloved team’s relentless decay.
Still, there are reasons to be positive. United are improving, with Ruben Amorim climbing off the hot seat and getting his team reacquainted with the right end of the table. It’s been a slow process: a first run of three straight wins under Amorim was followed by one victory in five. Last Monday’s 4-1 victory at Wolves looks more impressive in the light of Arsenal’s struggles against the league’s bottom side.
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