Manchester United’s long wait for the league title already looks like continuing for another season and their fall from grace is reminiscent of Liverpool’s in the Nineties.
The humbling 4-0 defeat at Brentford left United languishing at the bottom of the Premier League with new manager Erik ten Hag losing his opening two games in charge of the club.
Such was the horror show on display in west London on Saturday Night Football that many experts and United fans have already written off the club’s chances of competing with champions Manchester City for this season’s Premier League.
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With the potential departure of Cristiano Ronaldo, Gary Neville believes that Manchester United could finish in the bottom half of the Premier League table
That would make it a whole decade since Sir Alex Ferguson brought the record-extending 20th and last title back to the Old Trafford trophy room, with United now enduring the same agonising wait to win a championship that rivals Liverpool went through in the 1990s.
So ahead of their meeting on Monday Night Football, we look at how United’s current barren spell without a top-flight title compares to Liverpool’s 30 years ago and what, if any, lessons can they learn from the Merseysiders’ own league struggles back then?