October 7, 2024

Manchester United locked in holding pattern waiting for something to happen | Jonathan Liew

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Manchester United locked in holding pattern waiting for something to happen | Jonathan Liew

Ghost ship will only right itself with painstaking progress – but that didn’t make 0-0 draw less torturous to watch

My favourite Benjamin Disraeli story – in a crowded if largely apocryphal field – comes from a dinner party the then prime minister attended in the late 1870s. War is raging in the Balkans, and with public opinion overwhelmingly in favour of a British intervention, the mood at the table is understandably tense. Eventually one guest, unable to bear the awkward silence any longer, bursts out: “Mr Disraeli, what are you waiting for?”

“At this moment, madam,” Disraeli replies, “the potatoes.”

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