Football Daily | Get to the chopper: hopes and hair rise as Manchester United win two on the spin

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A journey that predates Ruben Amorim’s arrival at Old Trafford and began as a joke between friends, Frank Ilett’s daily dispatches from the frontline of Social Media Disgrace subsequently grew traction due in no small part to his team’s comical inability to win more than one Premier League game in a row under Amorim. “We hope that we can give him that haircut.”While Amorim would almost certainly promise to take a clippers to the hirsute young fan’s noggin in the centre-circle after United’s game against Everton next month if it guaranteed his side took all nine points available in the interim, not even Sunday’s victory against Liverpool is enough to suggest he and his team have finally turned a corner by following one Premier League win with another at the 10th time of asking.

Now that’s out of the way let’s try and make it three [wins] on Saturday against Brighton, because we have to start putting a bit more consistency together.”A lack of consistency is one of few issues not currently troubling the champions, even if the barbers of any Liverpool fans who have promised not to get their hair cut until their team lose five matches in succession are mentally preparing for a gruelling day behind the chair with garden shears in hand. Should Arne Slot’s side come unstuck against Eintracht Frankfurt in Bigger Cup on Wednesday, they will become the first Liverpool team to lose five matches in a row in 72 years but pondering his team’s current losing streak, the Dutch coach insisted he doesn’t think his team’s confidence has bottomed out.

Asked if he thought play should have been stopped in the buildup to United’s first goal after Liverpool’s skipper had unwittingly clobbered teammate Alexis Mac Allister, causing the Argentinian to go down with a head injury, Slot refused to be drawn. So that means if then it’s Liverpool … yeah, theoretically it’s possible.