Manchester United may be on a run of six consecutive matches without a win, but that’s still some way off threatening the club’s longest such streak.
For that, you have to go back almost a century to 1930. The world was a very different place. World War I was still fresh in the memory, the stock market had crashed and the Great Depression was in motion but the economy wouldn’t hit rock bottom for another two years, while John Steinbeck was still seven years away from publishing Of Mice and Men.
