They said that Jose Mourinho was a dead man walking. They said that whatever the result against Newcastle, the manager who was once special, the man who was once the king of our game, would be gone by the time Manchester United played again.
And for 70 minutes of this game, the biggest team in this country turned in a performance of such abject misery that they might as well have had a corpse for a manager and cadavers for players. Then, just when it seemed that all was lost, the players who seemed to have forsaken their manager breathed new life into him.
Whether their stirring comeback from 2-0 down to 3-2 winners will be enough to save him remains to be seen. It was tempting to think that United and Mourinho were only saved here because they finally came up against a club even more dysfunctional than they are.
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