Updates from Old Trafford (4.30pm KO GMT)Get in touch: email Rob with your thoughtsRuud van Nistelrooy’s pre-match thoughtsIt’s been a week of mixed emotions – Erik leaving, taking over, Wednesday’s game and how it went.There’s been no contact [with Ruben Amorim]. It’s been communicated to the players that I’ll be in charge until next Sunday and then the new manager will take over. That means we can focus on trying to win the next three games.A League Cup meeting on New Year’s Day, instantly forgettable were it not for one of football’s greatest-ever juxtapositions of beauty and the beast. Ron Harris had many qualities, but subtlety was not one of them.Here he is heaving into view from way out, belabouring George Best’s ankles with a proper old-school reducer. It’s a textbook piece of uberviolence – a vicious sliding tackle perfectly timed and executed, as graceful as brutality can ever get – but it was all for naught. Best ignored Chopper’s galoot-isms, somehow retained his balance – despite being kicked almost horizontal in mid-air – and continued his run. Continue reading… Read More
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