Have to stop watching this one to work now, but honestly it's a relief. It's becoming almost unbearably frustrating that the only thing more reliable than the awful football is the mind-numbingly stupid team selection and formation that causes it. Anyone on this thread having a go at the players is looking in the wrong place.
Fergie has picked two very out of form wingers, one of whom is nothing special in the first place, over two very in-form, talented midfielders. He's also picked Paul Scholes over Cleverley again, despite all the evidence that the latter can now do anything the former can do, but at twice the speed.
It's so, so frustrating to go from watching the U18s, a team full of wonderful skilful, inventive, creative players who are put into a line-up and formation which allows them to express themselves and rip apart all comers, to a team whose own consignment of technical, creative players sit on the bench whilst Fergie picks the wrong-players in a hideously inappropriate, outdated formation, and we end up playing predictably shit football and being outplayed single-handedly by Steven Bloody Ireland.
Rant over. I sense that my essay on prosody and cognition is going to be an angry one.