Amorim's free pass has now expired

GROWING UNREST AMONG FANS AS POOR FORM CONTINUES

- By SAMUEL LUCKHURST

“I CAN'T see how this manager is avoiding the sack," a United season ticket holder who was in the away end at the Etihad messaged. “He’s had a free pass until now and it was always the case that he had to start the season well. He certainly hasn't.”

Another was in the lower tier and remained until the end. “Personally, I think he’s finished,’ he admitted. “Loads of Reds want him to do well but there’s nothing at all to say he’s the man.”

“He’s getting hammered in the pub,’ another said. He was not referring to Ruben Amorim drowning his sorrows.

“Amorim is like a pigeon,’ another messaged, “endlessly crashing into a glass window, dazed and stubborn, convinced he'll break through if he just keeps at it.”

This is not the United matchgoers outright turning against Amorim. They are just resigned to another in-season managerial change.

Amorim fronts up in defeat by strolling onto the pitch to applaud the supporters. There were only a handful remaining in the three tiers of the Etihad’s South Stand at full-time on Sunday.

City scoring at least three times, Phil Foden and Erling Haaland on the scoresheet, an emptying away end and an empty feeling. We have become accustomed to this watching United in derbies over the past 12 years. Amorim copped similar treatment to David Moyes, Jose Mourinho, Ralf Rangnick and Erik ten Hag.