Are Man Utd the Liverpool of the 90s?

Manchester United's long wait for the league title already looks like continuing for another season and their fall from grace is reminiscent of Liverpool's in the Nineties.

The humbling 4-0 defeat at Brentford left United pointless and in the Premier League relegation zone with new manager Erik ten Hag having lost his opening two games in charge of the club.

Such was the horror show on display in west London last weekend that many experts and United fans have already written off the club's chances of competing with champions Manchester City for this season's Premier League.

That would make it a whole decade since Sir Alex Ferguson brought the record-extending 20th and last title back to the Old Trafford trophy room, with United now enduring the same agonising wait to win a championship that rivals Liverpool went through in the 1990s.

So ahead of their meeting on Monday Night Football, we look at how United's current barren spell without a top-flight title compares to Liverpool's 30 years ago and what, if any, lessons can they learn from the Merseysiders' own league struggles back then?

When Kenny Dalglish suddenly resigned as Liverpool manager on February 22 1991, Liverpool were the reigning league champions, having won title No 18 the previous season. And while they eventually failed to defend their crown that year, losing out to Arsenal, it was not expected to be long before the club got their hands back on the trophy.

They opted to bring in another Scot to replace Dalglish in the former Liverpool captain and then Rangers boss Graeme Souness, with his appointment in April 1991 welcomed by the club's supporters.

However, Souness' time in charge at Anfield did not go according to plan as his attempts to rebuild and