It may well be that the rest of this season is damage limitation for United - although let's not forget they still have the FA Cup and Europa League to go for - and we cannot make any sort of definite judgement on Amorim until next season.

Michael O’Sullivan, the Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey, has died from head injuries sustained in a horror last-fence fall at Thurles on February 6. In the middle of Donald Trump’s tornado of tariff announcements, policy analysts have been clinging to a single hope.