Just when Manchester United fans thought it couldn’t get any worse, up steps fourth-division side Grimsby Town to plunge the once-great club even further in the mire.

"I thought that was quite amusing," Stockwood said on The Athletic FC podcast. "They clearly didn't know what they were coming into."

This infamous defeat amid lightning and thunderstorms in Cleethorpes only adds weight to Ruben Amorim’s assessment that we are watching the worst team in Manchester United’s history. The unrestrained joy of Grimsby’s celebrations should be the lasting memory of this League Cup tie but it will inevitably be United sinking to one of their lowest moments in the modern era.