Manchester United had everyone up and out of their seats on the day of a sit-in protest for all the right and bad reasons.

United’s early-season stutter reached new lows after going down 1-0 after 86 seconds and 2-0 after four minutes. This furthered the cause for the fans’ displeasure who were preparing a post-game protest against the club’s owners. 

Sir Alex Ferguson must have wished he had been celebrating Spirit Dancer’s victory at York Racecourse at that time.

However, they were dancing in the Old Trafford stands at the conclusion of the game to celebrate the thrilling comeback triumph that was their great manager’s specialty.

Mind you, they required some assistance to get there.

Forest stunned their opponents early on with to goals from Taiwo Awoniyi and Willy Boly, and they were ultimately responsible for their own demise.

In the first half, Christian Eriksen restored parity; in the second, Casemiro achieved the same feat.When captain Joe Worrall was dismissed for pulling down opponent Bruno Fernandes just outside the box, the visitors were still in the game.Soon after, Danilo’s even more idiotic challenge on Marcus Rashford resulted in a penalty.Both times, VAR did not feel the need to overturn Stuart Attwell’s first decision, and Fernandes’ penalty kick could not be stopped.Old Trafford may be in disrepair, but United’s penchant for drama remains.The city is home to a talented American singer-songwriter known by the stage name BC Camplight.”It Never Rains In Manchester” is a song that can be found on his most recent album.It’s obviously quite snarky. And when it comes to the most well-known football team in the area, it never drizzles, but always pours.Whenever United do well, the phrase “United are back” is used. Some of the same people declare “we’re miles off” after the next terrible performance. There aren’t many different tones of grey. except for the persistent clouds.However, by the time the game had lasted for about 12 minutes and the skies finally opened, it was impossible to resist being drawn back into the soap drama.The home team actually had the first opportunity, as Antony forced Forest goalkeeper Matt Turner into an ineffective save.But the visitors took the lead from the ensuing corner.The game’s early moments were defined by United losing a duel in the air to Morgan Gibbs-White over Aaron Wan-Bissaka.Awoniyi rushed onto the ball from his own half after Rashford made a feeble challenge. Andre Onana pondered before withdrawing. Even though Rashford ran back, the Nigerian only managed a forward-style challenge before the ball was scuffed into the goal.After another series of mistakes, it was 2-0 only two minutes later. In lieu of the injured Luke Shaw at left back, Diogo Dalot made an unnecessary foul.The Gibbs-White free kick, which was more or less deflected in by Boly, was not well dealt with by any United player.After Turner had stopped Bruno Fernandes, Eriksen restored parity by deflecting Rashford’s cross into the goal.United came even closer to scoring twice more, but despite spending most of the game in their own half, Forest continued to pose a threat on the break, and in first-half stoppage time, Awoniyi stopped Gibbs-White’s attempt.Unbelievably, Forest could have gotten off to a better start in the second half than they did in the first as they applied instant pressure to a United defense that had been thrown off by Raphael Varane’s substitution at the half.But after slipping past Martinez, Gibbs-White opted to draw the ball back rather than shoot.He soon had further reasons to regret his choice. Although it appeared that United messed up a free-kick drill on the practice field, Rashford gave the ball back to Fernandes.Casemiro scored by jabbing the ball home after the captain’s header crossed the goal again.Soon after, Turner made a magnificent stop against Antony, sending Old Trafford into a frenzy.Jadon Sancho replaced the consistently unimpressive Anthony Martial, Fernandes pulled a shot wide, and the sun was shining. Stage was already set.Worrall’s act of insanity completely changed the game.One may argue that if Willy Boly and Turner had run onto Casemiro’s promising long pass, they would have gotten to the ball before Fernandes. However, in that instance, the offence itself was pointless, and VAR Michael Salisbury did not see any justification for Attwell to reconsider giving him the boot.United still had 20 minutes to find a winner even though the charming free-kick idea this time around failed to work.Fernandes did this.Danilo’s challenge was poorly timed once more, but Rashford took advantage of it.Salisbury believed Attwell had made the correct decision once more, and the United captain converted the penalty.For the home team, there were still some anxious moments.Boly was abruptly stopped by Onana, and Forest frantically tried to rescue a point.As 11 minutes of Fergie time were revealed, there were groans.But after yet another memorable day at the races, the man and the rest of the United supporters eventually returned home content.