Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Manchester United were like Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca : they always had Paris but the romance had to end.
A common paean paid to Solskjaer in his eulogies was he restored the soul to United. For almost half of Solskjaer's tenure, the turnstiles were locked and the stadiums soulless.
United's form against the traditional elite nosedived: two wins from five against Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, and Tottenham in the Premier League.
United failed to score in six of the ten fixtures. A derby day is not a proper derby day without 'U-N-I-T-E-D' or 'Hark now hear'.
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