The Fiver | Something of a tall order

In today’s Fiver: Herbert Bamlett, Monchi and your personalised edition

This season’s Manchester United strip references the early 1980s. Their current brand of football, meantime, also betrays retro stylings, heavily influenced as it is by 1973. And quite a bit of 1974. It wasn’t totally surprising, then, when the club looked back a few decades to gain similar old-school inspiration for the pre-match entertainment at Old Trafford. The 1960s-style dog handling display was a cute idea, to be fair, though perhaps next time best stick to a few small hurdles along the pitch with a ball to fetch at the end of it, or a guy dressed as a robber with one of his arms wrapped in hessian.

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