Manchester United’s final game of 2024 felt like the moment the big top on the Old Trafford circus started to sink.
Before now, United’s calamities in the last decade or so have been incubated to a tier most other clubs can only dream of: finishing bottom of a Champions League group; coming eighth in the Premier League but winning the FA Cup; losing a Europa League final 11-10 on penalties.
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As we turn into 2025, however, the ground on which this weekly entertainment show is built is crumbling to a base level.
After Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth, Newcastle’s 2-0 win inflicted on United a third straight league loss at home for the
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