IAN HERBERT: The writing is on the wall for a likable but out-of-his-depth Ole Gunnar Solskjaer... Results have papered over the cracks of poor performances and a Champions League exit is a low too far for a club on its knees

The world is currently so chaotic and unintelligible that you long to see an individual like Ole Gunnar Solskjaer taking Manchester United back to the place where Sir Alex Ferguson left them.

He shops at the local food store in Hale village, references the Ferguson methods which he observed and jotted down in diaries, and embraces his young players in a way that tells them their struggles are his struggles.

But a fundamental niceness alone will not sustain Manchester United, or restore Old Trafford to what, with no intended irony, they like to call the Theatre of Dreams.