"and Man United had just been knocked out of a Champions League group they should have coasted through."
Fact. When I saw the champions league draw on TV I thought the same, Easy group, great. How they managed to mess it up is beyond me. But Its complacency. The current United team is missing a Roy Keane like player, someone who grabs the team by the scruff of the shirt and pulls them forward. But I don't think there will ever be another player quite like Roy. Love him or hate him, he was the best captain the team ever had.