RUBEN Amorim’s Manchester United have lost their first game one-nil to a team widely tipped as title contenders and yet he remains in post. Why?

Laziness

It’s summer. Chairman Sir Jim Ratcliffe, much as he enjoys the erotic frisson of a good firing, is on holiday. Too mean to subscribe to Sky Sports, he may not even have heard the result until Match of the Day where it was the last match shown due to being shite. Consequently he’ll let Amorim lose the next game and condemn them to certain relegation.

Shame

Like viewers of Marvel films, drivers of Smart cars and Brexiters, United are no strangers to the sunk-cost fallacy. To change course now, even when it is undeniable the club will not secure a single point all season, would be a humiliating admission that a terrible mistake was mad

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