Man U v Forest, Saturday 26 August 3pm

Keeper, defender and Wood came together at the exact same moment. Could have gone in any direction, no blame on Wood.

I’m out of the house so not able to watch anything, but this sounds encouraging (even assuming we lose, which isn’t definite at the time of writing). Last season we never laid a glove on this lot, and this year we have despite not actually having many of the signings in the side yet - as Guru has said, the back 3is essentially our Champ line-up.

We are definitely making progress

100%. We've looked the more likely team to score in the last 20 minutes.

Well. About as encouraging a defeat as you'll see, I think. Aina, Yates, Taiwo, Morgan, Boly all excellent. MOTM for me is either Aina or Boly.

Now watching the United fans all remaining in the ground demanding the Glazers sell. As a final fuck you to those ingrates I think the Glazers should sell us Casemiro for 5M plus Jonjo Shelvey.

Don't read the comments on Facebook. It's full of Forest fans demanding to know why the Casemiro goal wasn't offside and you don't have the time or the patience to explain the laws to all of them.

Whenever I read the comments on Facebook it’s full of “big club” fans who’ve obviously never set foot in an English football ground and are angry their favorite player isn’t being used correctly.

Also sounds (<football clichés>whisper it quietly</football clichés>) as though there are signs that a fully fit Chris Wood is far from the “donkey-waste-of-money” caricature of the NEP comment pages…

Similarly, Taiwo scoring in all of his last seven games is a reason for optimism.

The scorelines are progress but a point worse off than this time last year and the away fixture prophecy of doom is running to plot.

Also disapointed Wolves scored, Tricky confidently said they would never score again.

The performances are also considerably better. We're in these games, we weren't last year.

<Checks the BBC report>
Nope, nothing controversial here. United a bit weak down the middle and Maguire didn't play. You'd think that a hard-fought match settled in part by a red card and a penalty might merit some discussion, but no.

Ah balls. Aina and Boly excellent. Worrall tripped on the trailing leg of Fernandez. He didn’t foul him. He fell over. The red was harsh. United got away with blatant yellows and we didn’t. If Rashford is isolated one on one on the left watch out.

The United second goal was a thing of beauty and we were excellent as a 10 man team.

It’s a pity we went into our shell early.

Taiwo is a menace. Gibbs white at the start of the second half did a beautiful move and was in. Instead he chose to pass when he just should have smashed it to make it 3-1.

Turner was fine. His kicking is better than Henderson and I don’t blame him for any of the goals.

We gave them a game but you just cannot sit on a lead for 85 minutes unless you are playing Arsenal.

If Rashford wasn’t playing we would have got something from the game.

Erickson is way way more effective for Utd than Mason mount stand.

I hate Fernandez but he is one hell of a player. Yates was our version just not as skillful. Wood looked good when he came on. Mctominay is not a footballer.

Fuckers.

Chicago: Still hopeful.

Away from Old Trafford, not a red, not a penalty.

I think you are right. Joe didn’t foul him he tripped and fell. With Reds you have to show intent. No way was he trying to bring down Bruno.

Bad luck really.

Who said that Manc Utd don’t get preference treatment? Dunno but they would be lying.

Chicago: Off for a shot of bourbon.

Taiwo looks like he's on speed compared to last year. Very impressive, and his reputation will help us get up the pitch alone. Glass very much half full. The performance with ten men was very good. They wanted that game to end.