The indignities for Liverpool started with the banner “24 Years and Counting” that was unveiled in the old Scoreboard End before the kick-off and, by the time it was all done, it was not easy to imagine how long it might be before this proud old club are a contender for the league championship again. The team who bewitched us last season are no more. The deterioration is sharp and football is such an impatient business Brendan Rodgers will know his status as manager of the year does not excuse him scrutiny.
Nine months ago, Liverpool came here and, as Sir Alex Ferguson recalled recently in his updated autobiography, “battered us”, a 3-0 thumping that told us so much about the David Moyes era at Manchester United and the brilliant work Rodgers was apparently undertaking at the other end of the East Lancs Road. What is happening now makes it feel like all that momentum has been lost. No team can defend this generously and expect to get away with it and the already considerable disappointment from being outdone by the old enemy will hardly be soothed by the knowledge this is not even a terribly good United side.
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