It comes to something when playing the side seemingly Sellotaped to the foot of the table becomes a big deal. The reality is that football now exists in an Internet petri-dish and at the other end of the microscope, we have volatile baboons prone to rioting and frequent bouts of hurling unmentionable substances at the lens.
Should the serial winner Mourinho be able to best a side that have only won one game so far all season? Why of course, but in this surreal 202o/21 term, crazy results have kept the bookies smiling. Fellow strugglers West Brom have drawn with Man City and Chelsea; Fulham drew with us and Liverpool.
United are 15/4, Spurs are 3/4, and the draw is 13/5.
I expect Spurs to win and win comfortably. Sheffield United have drawn only twice so far and lost in 15 occasions. It’s little wonder that Steve Bruce was seething after losing at Bramhall Lane last week (although that was a VAR instigated penalty decision).