The question now is not whether this was a humiliation. It was. The bigger question is: what next for Ruben Amorim and Manchester United?
The FA Cup is suddenly the club’s only realistic route to silverware, and the season is barely a month old. Confidence is evaporating, supporters are restless, and the sight of Amorim fiddling with magnets in the rain has become symbolic of a man searching for solutions he cannot find.
The rebuild was supposed to offer hope. Instead, the cracks are already showing—at goalkeeper, in attack, in midfield leadership. With the transfer deadline looming, players like Garnacho, Antony and Sancho may already be eyeing the exit door.
Amorim promised modern ideas, tactical energy, and a new direction. But the blunt truth is this: United, even with hundreds of millions spent, still look like a side that can be bullied and beaten by a League Two opponent.
And unless Amorim finds answers fast, the haddocks at Blundell Park will not be the last symbols of ridicule he faces this season.