As the camera panned to a grim-faced Sir Jim Ratcliffe in the Old Trafford directors' box in the second half on Sunday, it was easy to imagine what he must have been thinking.
Ratcliffe, Manchester United's part-owner, was watching his side suffer another humiliation at the hands of their fiercest rivals Liverpool, raising the same old questions about the direction of the club and, particularly, the position of head coach Erik ten Hag.