Quote: Saddened! "I sit and watch this United side and wonder just why they are so successful. They should in theory be destroyed when you look how weak they are across midfield. Welbeck is a very important player for them, chases lost causes all game. The fact that he's utterly terrible doesn't matter when you work as hard as he does.'"
Someone on the Guardian podcast (Sid Lowe?) was saying that United are a team that defy analysis. I'd agree with that.
This season I think of them like when in cartoons the coyote runs off the cliff but keeps going for a while until he looks down and realises there's nothing holding him up. United keep going on bravado and sheer force of will.
