India, Aug. 25 -- Manchester United are no better than last season

IT'S TELLING that after 80 minutes on the clock, the game is even, and there to be won, United's coach Ruben Amorim sent on two defenders to try and pluck an unlikely and undeserved win out of nothing at Fulham. Harry Maguire may have resuscitated his reputation last year - a low bar for an excruciatingly poor team - but a footballing messiah he is not. But that's where United are, two games in, a brand new forward line to boot, but precisely the same drudgery of old. New boys Mbuemo and Cunha can huff and puff vigorously, but they already look short of ideas and inspiration in a United team that has managed to, in all of two games, repeat the pattern of last season: play...