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ON THE DAY of a sit-in protest, Manchester United had everyone out of their seats for all the right and wrong reasons.
One down after 86 seconds, two behind inside four minutes, United were taking their early season stutter to new lows – and justifying further the anger of fans planning their post-match demonstration against the club’s owners.
At that point, Sir Alex Ferguson must have wished he had been at York racecourse celebrating the win of his horse, Spirit Dancer.
But at the end they were dancing in the stands of Old Trafford to celebrate the kind of dramatic comeback victory that was their great manager’s stock in trade.