Yes I am afraid we are talking tactics. It is my opinion that any team that is forced to employ tactics down to the letter of what the manager has imposed on them, stops them being able to play in a spontaneous manner and enjoy their football.

This for me is not the United way!

Ok a team has to have some basic tactics but it was the great Alex Ferguson's mantra to say at the end of any team talk and always before sending his team on the pitch. "Make sure you enjoy yourselves"

United have lost their identity and have been forced into such tactics because they do not have good enough players and are not a good enough team. They are more than not these days finding themselves facing better opposition or teams that are well set up and forced to defend. United have themselves have been forced into this tactic way too much for a club of such stature. Not that I am saying they have a divine right to success, no-one does. It is always achieved through hard work aligned with a little bit of luck thrown in for good measure.

So, however much it pains me to say it, Liverpool at this moment in time are quite clearly a better team than United and even though Klopp himself used tactics, his were positive and did not restrict his team.

It's not a question of whether the tactics are successful as they were famously in Paris last year. It's more a case that coaches since Ferguson have all felt the need to employ these systems as they are combating teams that are stronger in most departments.

The reason I am a United fan is as follows. It's known I am from Hull and as a kid my dad would take me to see the Tigers on a regular basis at Boothferry Park in the old 3rd and 4th division. Even though I now look back with fondness for these occasions, for a 7/8 year old, it was mostly quite arduous. I got through it by  looking forward to trying to catch a signed ball at the start of a game and then my half time packet of sweets (or goodies as my dad would say being more ingrained in the Hull accent than me,  coming from the posh bit of Swanland as I do).

Seeing Man Utd play in the 1985 Fa Cup final was the first time that I really recognised football as a form of entertainment and this was a monumental moment for me. This team could play proper glamorous football, even with 10 men. Believe it or not they were the underdogs back then and the Everton team had just won the league. Most of my friends supported Liverpool, and still do to this day for that matter. At that period they had been the best team for quite some time. But for me they were boring and relied way too much on the back pass law. Grobbelaar would endlessly roll the ball out to Hansen who then kicked it back for the goalkeeper to pick up. They would do this several times, especially when they were winning games.

It can't go unnoticed that indeed Liverpool have not won the league championship since this law was changed at the start of the Premier league era.

Going back to United it was a real love at first site thing and something that has never been knocked out of me even when as an adult you realise you should support the club from where you hale, which I do and try to go to Hull's games when I am back in the uk. United though is in my heart and always will be. Someone once said to me that you can change your women but you can't change your football team, ha!

So where do we go from here? This is the billion pound conundrum. And I don't think sacking the manager would help unless they could get a modern genius of the game in the ilk of Klopp or Guardiola. But as we all know there are not many about. So it is looking a bit like the dodgy political climate that we are all forced to endure right now and that us United fans will have to play the long game and hope for the good times to come back one day.

I bet you all feel sorry for us now right??? Errm maybe not.