Last season Solskjær’s side faced a defining game at Leicester and won. Are they in shape to repeat the trick against Villarreal?
An enormous
police presence. Dogs. Drones. A helicopter. A 10ft wall. Crash barriers. Subterfuge. It has taken an awful lot for the
Premier League and their partners to get matches played since last June but Thursday night at Old Trafford for the classic of the English
Football calendar –
Manchester United v
Liverpool – took matters to a whole new level.
The details above are the eye-popping ones, the response to the fear that a group of United supporters – incandescent at the Glazer family and the owners’ drive to join the failed European Super League – might try to force a second postponement, the original fixture on the Sunday before last having been bumped after
protesters stormed the stadium.