RUBEN AMORIM considers his side the “worst Manchester United team in history” – and he may be right.
The Red Devils slumped to a dismal 3-1 defeat to Brighton on Sunday, leaving them 13th in the table.
It was United's fifth defeat – three of which were at home – in just eight games.
And winning at Old Trafford is proving to be a big problem.
In twelve league matches they were defeated six times in front of their own fans.
And that horror series has equaled an unwanted club record set 131 years ago for the most home league games lost after twelve games.
At that time, in the 1893/94 season, United was called Newton Heath.
In their green and gold shirt, they lost seven games at home that year and were relegated.
United was known as Newton Heath when they were founded in 1878 by the carriage and carriage department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Depot.
They were renamed Manchester United in 1902 after the club fell into debt and changed hands.
This season will go down in history for all the wrong reasons and the defeat to Brighton added to even more shocking records.
It was the Seagulls' third straight win at Old Trafford and handed United their tenth Premier League defeat in 22 games this season.
It is the first time they have achieved double figures for defeats since 1989/90.
Yankuba Minteh scored for Brighton after just five minutes and it was the fifth consecutive time they have conceded the first goal at Old Trafford, their joint longest ever run.
These damning statistics come after a dismal December in which United lost three consecutive home games at home for the first time since 1979.
And Amorim's men suffered six defeats in all competitions last month, which was the largest number of losses in a single month since September 1930.
United were last relegated at the end of the 1973/74 season and despite Amorim claiming defeat is a “possibility”, they are ten points above the drop zone.
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