Erik ten Hag accepted his fate as Manchester United manager in 20 seconds

As the afternoon train arrived in London Euston from Manchester Piccadilly, hundreds of Reds descended onto the capital, forcing the locals to hear them coming.

"Erik ten Hag's red and white army" and "We're the famous Man United and we're going to Wembley" echoed around Euston Station as fans streamed into the underground.

On the journey down, a fan was overheard saying: "If we don't win the FA Cup then I think Ten Hag has to go." United progressed to the final of England's oldest cup competition against Coventry but Manchester City will kill them on May 25 if they perform as they did again.

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United were 3-0 up on 70 minutes, seemingly cruising to a repeat of last season's FA Cup final, and they spectacularly collapsed against an eighth-placed Championship side.

Coventry, who showed United far too much respect in the first half, offered nothing for most of the game, but they smelt an opportunity after Ellis Simms' well-taken goal and would have completed one of the finest comebacks in FA Cup history if VAR hadn't existed.

There was a great line in Mark Robins' post-match press conference when the Coventry manager said penalties wouldn't have been needed if Haji Wright had cut his toenails.

Wright provided the assist for Victor Torp's goal to make it 4-3 in the last minute of extra-time and VAR revealed him to have been offside by the barest of margins.

Watching Ten Hag as Coventry celebrated was fascinating. He stood motionless with hands in his pockets for longer than 20 seconds and the players sunk into the turf.

Ten Hag was staring down the barrel of a gun and