Get the United transfer latest, team news, match updates and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free With more than 70,000 Manchester United fans relishing their return to a full stadium, Old Trafford was already at fever pitch in the minutes before the Premier League season began against Leeds.
But then pre-match tradition was dispensed with, just when those fans had spent the past 17 months dreaming of matchday rituals.
Instead of 'This is the One' booming out over the stadium speakers, United welcomed Raphael Varane onto the pitch and now Old Trafford really was in raptures.
Varane waved his new shirt in the air and took a selfie in the centre circle. Those social media warriors apoplectic at the failure to announce
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