2020 was bad enough, but in 2021, we have yet more crises even though we have not even endured half a month, as Manchester United have somehow found a way to the very top of the Premier League table for the first time in nearly three-and-a-half years. On a technicality, they did top the table on the Friday night of the opening weekend of the 2018/19 season when they won the very first match of the season, but practically speaking, that shouldn’t count.
Now, 1,216 nights after they last topped the table, the Red Devils have returned to the place that they will feel they belong.