Manchester United 1-0 Fulham

United ride luck but maintain charge

March 26, 2012
By Richard Jolly, Old Trafford
(Archive)
Sometimes fortune favours the old. Just when Manchester United seemed the masters of the mundane, embarking on a leisurely stroll to victory rather than the fraught, frantic affairs that are supposed to characterise the title run-in, a 27-year-old referee came to the aid of a septuagenarian manager.

As Danny Murphy, whose days as United's nemesis date back to the last millennium, made a surprisingly sprightly 89th-minute break into the hosts' box, he was challenged clumsily by Michael ...

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