"I can't see how this manager is avoiding the sack," a Manchester United season-ticket holder who was in the away end at the Etihad messaged. "He’s had a free pass until now and it was always the case that he had to start the season well. He certainly hasn’t."

Another was in the lower tier and remained until the end. "Personally, I think he's finished," he admitted. "Loads of reds want him to do well but there's nothing at all to say he's the man."

"He's getting hammered in the pub," another said. He was not referring to Ruben Amorim drowning his sorrows.

"Amorim is like a pigeon," another messaged, "endlessly crashing into a glass window, dazed and stubborn, convinced he’ll break through if he just keeps at it."

This is not the United matchgoers outright turning against Amorim. They a

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