Post exclusive: The table in Manchester United s old news room is fixed with wooden strips, and it s only new

Hupu, August 27, Daily Mail Manchester United team reporter Chris Wheeler wrote an exclusive weekly report.

Just look around Manchester United's renovated Carrington training ground and you can feel the benefits of this £50 million upgrade.

Over the past year, the training base has been completely renovated to meet the needs of all players, and Ruben Amorin and his team have also moved back to the training ground in time to welcome the arrival of the new season.

Attentive fans will notice that the media facilities have also been improved, and Amorin even hosted a pre-match press conference behind a brand new desk.

What they probably wouldn't realize is that the old desk was shaking. For more than a decade, from David Moyes to Amorin, Manchester United's successive head coaches have not actually been fixed on their desks when interviewed by media.

This piece of wood you can buy from B&Q for about a few pounds, but it is often moved to the position or completely knocked out when reporters put down the tape in seconds before the arrival of the Manchester United head coach, and then quickly reinstalled - but, as the Daily Mail knows, it never fell during the season, which is a small miracle in itself.

As a symbol of Manchester United's decline, it is even more heartbreaking than the much-maligned leaky roof of Old Trafford, but this issue has not been revealed until now.

So we think it deserves a place in the club museum, but Manchester United insiders reliably tell us that it is destined to be thrown into a scrap car.