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Fits and starts (opens the original)
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SIX ASIDESPremier LeagueFulham 1, United 1Quiz question: in which of the past five seasons did United make their best start? (As measured by the first five league games.) This year, as you know, they’re 12th with five points under Michael Carrick. At the same stage last year, under Ruben Amorim, they were 11th with seven points. The year before, under Erik ten Hag, the same – 11th with seven points. In 2023-24, also under Ten Hag, they were 13th with six points. The strongest start came in 2022-
Carrick keeps calm and so should we (opens the original)
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SIX ASIDESCarabao Cup, third roundUnited 2, Brighton 3This is United’s lowest ebb under Michael Carrick. That’s not actually saying a lot: the previous low was losing to Hull on the opening day of the season, and it doesn’t look so bad now that Hull are still unbeaten in the league. In 26 games as United manager (including his brief stint in 2021-22), Carrick has lost only five times. It may feel like more than that because three of those defeats have come this season, in the space of six games.
A game of two refs (opens the original)
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SIX ASIDESPremier LeagueUnited 0, City 1It was a game of two refs. The one on the field, Michael Oliver, inspired little confidence from the start. He under-reacted to some early fouls, as if desperate not to give a yellow card. He then over-reacted to Phil Foden’s petulance and under-reacted to Bruno Fernandes’ provocation, when the wise move would have been to book them both. He managed to get in the way of the ball not once, not twice, but three times. The VAR, Matt Donohue, was even worse. H
Tielemans has arrived (opens the original)
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FIVE ASIDESChampions LeagueUnited 4, Sabah 0United are back in the high life again. It’s been a while – a thousand days since they lost 1-0 at home to Bayern Munich in the 2023-24 Champions League and finished bottom of their group with four defeats in six games. Other clubs may well beat Sabah by more than 4-0, but this was a big enough win, United’s biggest in Europe since the rout of Roma in the Europa League semi-final five years ago. It could easily have been another 6-2, but at this junctu
A glass of two halves (opens the original)
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SIX ASIDESPremier LeagueEverton 2, United 2It was a game of two halves, the first instantly forgotten, the second action-packed. It was a glass of two halves too – like so many glasses, both half-empty and half-full. For those who look on the glum side of life, it was two points squandered, another two goals conceded, the third instalment in a start to the season that has been, as the United commentator Sam Pilger put it, ‘shocking’ and ‘appalling’. For those who look on the bright side, it was
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