On a tactics board in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's office, a list of platitudes were scrawled across the pitch diagrams. They read: Game management - simple and efficient - do the simple things well and with pride - go and do your magic PLAY FOR THE TEAM - worked a whole year TAKE PRIDE in being the BEST YOU 'Pride', 'magic' and 'BEST YOU' were underlined.
By the end, Manchester United were so drained of pride some incandescent away-dayers turned against the man who gave them utopia in the Camp Nou.
Like Sir Alex Ferguson at West Brom in 2013, the players stopped in front of the away end at Watford and watched the sacrificial lamb amble forwards.
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