Get the latest United updates, transfer news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Ole Gunnar Solskjaer strolled onto the Old Trafford pitch, looked up at the directors' box, clenched his fist and raised it.
He often does so in victory, home or away, and it's never clear who the gesture is specifically for. On Sunday, it could only have been Sir Alex Ferguson or his family, for Solskjaer's paymaster was not in the stands.
Ed Woodward had gone off radar and the directors' box was sparse. There was radio silence from the United communications department as a seismic story brewed and the director of communications, usually present for home games, was AWOL.
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