Manchester United fans let the players and Glazers know what they think of them in Brentford thrashing

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.

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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. Chapman lost his third and Ten Hag's was ominous prior to Brentford: Liverpool at home.

“We want five”. “That’s why you’re going down.” "You're not famous anymore." "Eriksen, what's the score?" Brentford manager Thomas Frank offered the fans a wave.

There were “ole”s as half-time loomed. The officials showed no mercy and added four minutes. Mercifully for United, Brentford declared at 4-0, having expended most of their energy in the first-half when temperatures hit 35 degrees. United have sieved at least four goals in seven of their last 33 Premier League games.

There was gallows humour from an admirable away end early in the second-half as they impatiently wait for a goalscorer to be signed: "If United score, we're on the pitch." True to form, they didn't.

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