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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Manchester United spoil protests by winning on weird night at Old Trafford

A sign outside Old Trafford which reads 'welcome to the circus - Glazers Out'
Turns out, the only clowns were in the Liverpool defence. Photograph: Andy Barton/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

STORMZ IN A TEACUP

Monday Night Football has prided itself on its cutting-edge innovation ever since Richard Keys and Andy Gray invented football punditry almost 30 years ago to the day. Normally broadcast from a ground-floor studio full of newfangled light-boxes, magic witch portals and other analytical gizmos in Sky’s Isleworth citadel, last night the show went on the road to Old Trafford, all the better to experience first hand the fan protests that would bring the greedy Glazer family to their knees and then have ringside seats for the subsequent slaughter of Manchester United In Crisis by bitter rivals Liverpool.

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