Almost as predictable as walking into a local bar anywhere to watch Champions League and seeing strictly a Manchester United contingent, there was some static in the reader response to a post questioning the authenticity of the team’s (allegedly) bloated following.

Let’s set the record straight real quick. I don’t hate any Premiership teams, and if I did, “Man U” wouldn’t be one of them. They would be (in no particular order of the clubs’ pathetic tendencies): Liverpool, non-threatening Birmingham City just out of obligation and Newcastle.