Ian Bland

Best paragraph ever.

Happy to be eventually proved wrong by this, but Amorim is just a massive prick.

@RedLarkin As bleak as it is - and will be on Sunday - I stupidly think we might pull something off in the Cup and the narrative will shift. Relegation would be genuinely fascinating to watch, but I can’t see it.🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

The squad’s crap, but the tactics are suicidal.

Scenes tonight when Rashford scores direct from a corner.

Today this, tomorrow a drubbing from Newcastle. The United news cycle is just a never ending vortex of misery right now.

@henrywinter Presume Dan Ashworth assumed his job wasn’t in danger as well. A trigger happy (part)owner can’t make for a happy working environment, nor a club in which redundancies are so rife. A bleak situation getting bleaker by the week.

Of course, Ruben Amorim is under pressure. All elite managers, and he’s up there, put themselves under pressure to achieve. It’s in their DNA. But, whatever he says, his job is not in “danger”. Manchester United know they have appointed a talented head coach who needs time to eradicate a deeply-ingrained culture of under-achievement. Amorim needs funds to cut the dead wood from the squad and rejuvenate it with younger, hungrier responsibility-takers. United’s problem is as much an issue of mentality as ability. Maybe that’s a Glazer thing where United sadly became about what an individual could get out of the club rather than what they could put in. Whatever the cause, Amorim has to address the lack of leaders in the squad. United are too diffident. They have to recruit stronger characters and also promote from the academy players who care deeply about the club. Give Harry Amass a chance. Amorim says he's had only four training sessions to work on 3-4-2-1, far too short a time for such a major tactical change to be absorbed. He can really be judged only after a summer transfer window and a proper pre-season. The “suffering” will continue before things get better. Amorim deserves patience. #MUFC

Three at the back in the Championship will certainly be a vibe.

Lucky us for that the buffer of the total duffer stops us from having to really worry/get excited about the prospect of relegation.

Mildly terrifying run of fixtures looming as well. Can even see Wolves turning us over.

On the plus side, at least I didn’t pay £132 to watch this crap. Cheers, Jim.

Love United Hate Ineos

@PeterBradshaw1 Astonishing how the searing insight kicks in immediately after the thing they said wouldn’t happen happens.

Commiserations again to Kamala Harris, the memory of whose magnificent effort is being effaced by the wise-after-the-eventers of the fickle liberal commentariat

Good prep for when the city verdict comes in at least.

At least there won’t be a civil war. Just a world one.

Ruben Amo21m

Striking edition of Marca. All photography replaced by images of the tragedy in Valencia. Print still rules.

@SmnLlyd5 Just played one of the best gigs I’ve ever seen. And I never thought I’d be saying that at my age.

@iangbland They’re excellent

Imagine being the best band on the planet.

Fontaines DC (A). Ridiculously good.

And imagine being at a gig without some dickhead from Leeds doing coke in the bogs.