After a first half that looked an indictment of both sides decline the game ended with Liverpool’s problems looking more ingrained and United transformedFootball matches are often described as a game of two halves. This was something new: a game of one half. By the conclude of Manchester United’s 3-1 defeat of a distressingly flaccid Liverpool there were still whispers around Old Trafford,some suggestion that a first 45 minutes may possess actually taken status, but no memory of it lingered, and no marks remained. Just a vague sense,perhaps, of some 22-man slow-motion arm-wrestle having taken status in soft evening sunshine as the Manchester United project shared a piece of grass with the Liverpool project.
The collective narrative before this match had always suggested what we were approximately to see was a kind of angst-summit, and a assembly of two decaying empires gripped with Weltschmerz,angst, ennui and – lets face it – unhappiness at not getting to win everything all the time any more.
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Source: theguardian.com