If so they are going to go only one way - down the table to join Arsenal. Overpaid superstars struggling to find the passion or reason to put in a shift against 'lesser' sides, and an audience expecting constant thrills, becoming increasingly silent with each passing phase of neat but needless triangular passing. Meanwhile the ManU equivalents of PPF will get older and balder and fatter and grumpier and end up with only the vestigial memory of the importance of tribal loyalty to prevent them rocking up to stand on the terrace at Rochdale or Stockport.
