It is full-time of Burnley’s first win at Old Trafford since 1962 and the atmosphere inside Old Trafford has mutated from animosity to antipathy.



Those who earlier in the match were making mutinous noise have now left and the Theatre of Dreams (insert your own joke here) is numbed by the anaesthesia of acceptance. This is Manchester United in 2020. And it is bleak.



At the final whistle, Sir Alex Ferguson waits in his seat while those around him in the directors’ box rise. Perhaps he’s feeling the “embarrassment” spoken of later in the BT Sport studio by Rio Ferdinand, the former United defender.



Once on his feet, Ferguson has to wait a minute or so in a queue to get into the lounge below, the irony being that if he were anywhere else in the stadium he would have a quick walk to an exit by virtue of the thousands of empty seats.



Ferguson poses for pictures with half a dozen fans and then disappears from view, perhaps...