It is the worst 'big match' in the history of Premier League.
The first time that two of the so -called elite of English football in such an advanced stage of the season met both clubs in the lower half of the table.
Glory, Glory Tottenham Hotspur, someone? Or glory, glory, man utd by the way?
Not when the two clubs that dispute these underperformers, Derby the weekend in 13th and 14th positions. And at the kick -off at 4.30 pm on Sunday, that could even read the 15th against 16th.
If Sky invoices this as Super Sunday, they will do this with tongue firmly in the cheek. And neutral that will coordinate will feel like rubber necks on a car crash site.
Since both clubs in the 1970s were banned from the top flight in the 1970s, both have experienced a fairly such a terrible campaign.
We have never seen that way in the Big Six era. Only Chelsea's collapse in 2015-16 can be compared with the season, whether traces or the Red Devils suffer.
And this is not a sudden implosion such as that of Jose Mourinho's second Stamford Bridge regime. For United and Spurs, this represents a settlement after years of defective decision -making and chronic maladministration.
Losing has become a bad habit for both, so that they are overtaken by smaller clubs such as Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton and Fulham, as well as a revival of Nottingham Forest under former Tottenham manager Nuno Espirito Santo.
Ange Postecoglou's Injury-rejected Spurs ended a horror run of one point from seven games with victory in Brentford in their last competition outing.
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But since then they have been dumped from both domestic cups.
United has lost five of their last six league matches at Old Trafford, and although their road shape was better under Ruben Amorim, this has been a shocking season, even according to the gloomy standards of the Post-Ferguson era.
The similarities are convinced.
Two tactical-dogmatic managers married their philosophies, immovable in the light of the Bopecoglou's coercion to play from the back, Amorim's Adamance that his 3-4-3 is not negotiable.
Two rare English rulers in the boardrooms, who give foreign owners a good name.
Spurs fans will protest against Daniel Levy, but his reputation for Penny-Pinching looks absurd when he is stopped against the cost savings of Sir Jim Ratcliffe, because he became a minority owner at Old Trafford-where is a series of demoralizing back room receptions in the offing .
Two squadrons devoid of trust, both lack effective leadership on the field, in which senior players have not understood the nettle, which means that promising young people cannot thrive.
Is there a way out of this death spiral for both clubs? And how low can they fall?
The bottom four are at least so far away that relegation should not be a serious care. It is easier to claim the case for a quick change in Fortunes at Spurs and Big Ange has done this in every media.
The injury list of Tottenham was extreme the losing of a first-choice keeper, a whole back four and a quartet of attacking players would send most teams in a dive.
Not that this apologizes from Ipswich and Leicester, nor the way of their complicated capitulation in Anfield in the semi-final second stage of Carabao Cup while Liverpool drove to a 4-0 win.
But the early struggles of United under Amorim are positive for Postecoglou-the evidence that changing managers in the mid-season do not necessarily offer a bouncy.
Spurs have the modern infrastructure that united crazy.
Yet their beautiful stadium suggests that a shiny new Wembley van het Noorden in Old Trafford probably has no positive influence on the long -term long -term of United.
The wrestling Noord -London club has also recruited promising young players in the last two windows, a Path Ratcliffe is planning to follow.
Everyone wants a long-term plan, but in the Kneep-Jerk 'now culture' of the Premier League, how fast is the future?
Tottenham has already beaten United twice this season-a 3-0 drubing at Old Trafford and a crazy 4-3 victory in the quarterfinals of Carabao Cup.
Expected with a number of fit-again reinforcements, a third success about their fellow crisis club can be mood change.
For United the photo is gloomy.
There is no battalion ready to rise from the treatment table.
Indeed, after lending Marcus Rashford and Antony in January, without recruiting replacements, there is a serious lack of attacking players in Amorim's team.
The Portuguese boss must be allowed to limp until the end of the season, hoping for a new wonderful cup run as those who gave Erik ten Hag a delay last year.
And then perhaps a big summer recording – not that different similar innovations have worked at United in recent years.
Could the Europa League represent a lifeline for both clubs?
Earlier this season, Mourinho – who both succeeded – stated that the Red Devils and Tottenham were the two business favorites to win the Europa League because of the economic influence of the Premier League.
This should be true, but the reality is different. No English club has won the second five seasons of UEFA, with only Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's United who reaches the final at the time.
For now, however, we have sentenced a meeting of Glum and Glummer – a macabre circus, with the losers sentenced to further humiliation and spot.
Roll up, roll up, for the largest sewerage show on earth.
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