In over 60 years of supporting United I don't think I've seen a United team 'bottle-it' like the lads did after the second and third goals went in... its a disgrace really.
OK the team has had a hard last few (albeit successful) weeks, two 'energy sapping' games against old rivals Leeds, and then two more against Barcelona, a Wembley final, a late flurry against West Ham, etc. in all these games we got away with some situations, yesterday afternoon we got away with nothing, all our weaknesses were cruelly exposed by our greatest rivals. What a sad, sad day for the club and its fans.
At lot of United players you wouldn't expect went missing in the cauldron that is Anfield, especially after we surely realised that Liverpool were looking to give someone a 'drubbing' for their own failings against Real Madrid.
I was quite optimistic even after we had missed the best two chances in the first half, Bruno's header and Marcus's run on goal, we had staunched Liverpool's early 'storming' and we were looking the better side, most likely etc. Then disaster struck, not just a lost ball but a really bad pass in our third of the pitch help them score at the worst possible time, just before half time. Even then I was still hopeful over the half time break... then came the second half of shame, its like a different team emerged... maybe its was something in their halftime drink!!!
Lets hope this is some sort of 'canker' we have to get out of our system, we definitely have to learn from this and ETH has to be ruthless from now on with those who clearly don't perform as requested.