I get tired of saying this and readers are surely tired of me writing it but I can't help it when I see yet another data point on Manchester Unitard's utter mediocrity over the last eleven seasons. Who would have thought this could ever be said:

Meanwhile, Palace's 76-year-old manager [Alan] Hodgson was left to celebrate extending his unbeaten run at Old Trafford to five games; four with Palace and one with Watford.

Or this:

It's the first time since 1989 that United have lost four of their first seven league games.

Those are just shocking, unbelievable if you didn't know they were 100% true.