18 weeks in and still nobody wants to claim the 2015/16 Premiership title. Leicester, Arsenal and Man United all suffering defeats on Boxing Day. Is time running out for Louis van Gaal?

There used to be a time when I would stand in the terraces singing, “Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, flying down the wing; feared by the Blues loves by the Reds, Ryan Giggs.” The United of old were a team designed to attack with the best players in the world marauding the flank, and a genius or two in the middle of the park holding it all together. On the other hand you had Stoke. The team that wet its knickers when Rory Delap was injured.

Oh how times have changed.

Stoke has Marko Arnautovic, Bojan Krkic and Xherdan Shaqiri. United have Marouane Fellaini. Stoke maraud. Stoke fight. Stoke play some beautiful attacking football. United Muddle. United have no fight. United play beautiful pass the ball back to the keeper type of football.