Red Devils bid to rekindle fortunes in own backyard

LONDON: The second week of a nine-month season would seem a little premature for talk of teams falling out of the Premiership title race. 

But it is indicative of the pressure Manchester United find themselves under in the opening skirmishes of this campaign that it was exactly in those terms that their defender Mikael Silvestre chose to refer to today's visit of Premiership newcomers Norwich to Old Trafford.