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Gallows humour pervaded in the stands prior to United's final Premier League game of a dismal 2024-25 campaign against Aston Villa - especially when talk turned to their prospects for next year.

In the wake of their defeat in Kuala Lumpur, there was gallows humour among the squad when it was pointed out somewhat ironically that after the season they just had domestically, they had now managed to get booed by fans 6,600 miles away from home.

Leather concurs: "It's how we respond to a crisis, there’s got to be a lot of gallows humour there – if we don’t have that and it’s cod-American, it’s not going to work. It has to be the British way. And we love to moan about trains!"

Like many veterans who contributed to We Were There, Andrew described his experience using gallows humour.

They said the "gallows humour" was the venting of their frustrations at working in a chronically understaffed unit.