Awards night at risk for 3rd year running

MANCHESTER UNITED'S embarrassed flops are expected to cancel their end-of-season awards night if they fail to secure Champions League qualification.

- EXCLUSIVE BY JEREMY CROSS

The fallen giants are bang in the middle of one of the worst campaigns in the club's history.

Sunday's tame FA Cup exit to Brighton means the managerless side have no chance of winning silverware at the earliest stage of a campaign since World War II.

United were knocked out of the Carabao Cup by League Two minnows Grimsby.