🤭 Man United’s Woes: A Laughing Matter?

Many Premier League fans find joy in poor start of the league’s heavyweight franchise. [View in browser]( [FOX SPORTS INSIDER WITH MARTIN ROGERS] In today’s FOX Sports Insider with Martin Rogers: Manchester United’s early-season struggles have its fans horrified, but followers of other Premier League teams can’t help but enjoy the show ... we dive into how the San Francisco 49ers are trying to speed up the development of quarterback Trey Lance ... and more! One of the longest-running jokes in English soccer is that whenever Manchester United plays in London (a five-hour drive in traffic), at least their fans don’t have far to travel. The implication is that, because of United’s historic dominance, glory-hunting supporters from the capital and other parts of England have gravitated en masse to the Red Devils instead of backing their local team — something that constitutes a far greater sporting crime in Europe than it does in this country. Going back three decades, generations of English soccer fans lived with a simple reality: If you wanted a team that won all the time, you supported United, regardless of geography. If you supported anyone else, you hated United. With passion. Think the New England Patriots at their Brady/Belichick peak, and magnify it to 12 championships in 21 years, and you get the idea of the level of jealousy. This is why, right now, every other team in the EPL is laughing loud and long. Following a calamitous start to the new English Premier League season, United, owned by the Glazer family that also controls the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is mired in a situation that would have been unthinkable just a few years back. Consecutive defeats to lightly-regarded Brighton and Brentford to begin the new campaign has consigned the club to the foot of the EPL table — 20th place out of 20 teams. Forget about trips to the fanciest stadiums in London, if this holds, United could soon be making journeys to unglamorous locales in places like Huddersfield, Luton and Blackpool in the Championship — one level down. Realistically, for a club with United’s global brand and spending power, relegation (the bottom three are demoted at season’s end) is never going to happen. But the decline is still stunning to witness. A neat example of how badly things have gone wrong is that Cristiano Ronaldo, who is desperate to leave United but is still on the books for now, makes more each week than either Brighton or Brentford’s collective starting XI payroll. However, to understand why this is all so darn funny to everyone else, you need to go back to 1999. To see the rest of the list, [click here.]( [STORY IMAGE 1] [IN OTHER WORDS] - The Los Angeles Dodgers held firm at the top of Ben Verlander’s MLB Power Rankings. 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