Manchester United’s garish kit clashed with the manicured grass at the Community Stadium and Brentford stomped all over them as though they were the turf. “You’re not fit to wear the shirt,” the United supporters spat.
Watching the defeatist players clad in attire more befitting a cyclist, the wheels have already come off under the new regime this season.
Steve McClaren urged Cristiano Ronaldo to approach the away end and he was not having any of it. "Hey Jude" largely drowned out the United fans but they booed those who approached them. Read more: United player ratings from a dreadful performance The first-half was the worst half from a United side in a lifetime, uttered more than once last season.
This was a new nadir after a season when United plunged to new fathoms. Erik ten Hag, complicit in United's aimless approach, has become the club's first manager to lose their first two matches since John Chapman in 1921.