Tag: Manchester United

If it is possible to subscribe to the idea that pathetic fallacy has any traction as a real life phenomenon, the full-time whistle at Old Trafford yesterday afternoon was the place to go looking for proof. As the heavens lashed the spectators with rain, the sky fell in on Manchester United’s season with a home defeat by Norwich City which added grist to the swelling mill of opinion that all is most definitely not right within the club at the moment. There has been a feeling that supporters are in a state of uneasy detente with manager Louis Van...

It used to be said that there were sections of the press who liked nothing more than to “build ’em up and knock ’em down.” We seem to live in a more sophisticated age than that, now, but only in so far as that the up-building and down-knocking processes engaged by the media have become so frantic and chaotic that it can be impossible in any one moment to be able to fully process whether any particular individual or institution is supposed to be lauded or despised. But what happens when a football club – and not just any...