David Moyes wins fragile vote of confidence
United manager buys time with Champions League victory over Olympiakos, but supporters have yet to be convinced
We, the people, have never enjoyed such indulgence in democracy thanks to the plethora of daily invites to vote on the issues of the hour.
"Should the US and the EU go to war with Russia over the annexing of Crimea?" reads one of the many internet polls minimised on my screen.
"Should Hong Kong follow Singapore in subsidising private kindergartens to make them more affordable for poorer families," canvasses another.
Digital polling booths vie for your every righteous click. You can exercise your vote for or against intervention in South Sudan or if Aaron Kwok Fu-shing should wear his side parting to the left or right.
How the ancient Athenians might gawp in wonder at this feverish 21st century plebiscitary practice! Bunk and bromidic harmless fun such suffrage may be, but do the multi-voting constituents know something we sceptics of such tabloid democratisation don't?
United were 29 points ahead of Liverpool at this stage of last season. Twelve months on they are 14 behind. If Moyes was a political leader, he would be axed with a swing like this
Who really knows if "the man" is not watching the count clandestinely in cyberspace, taking the pulses of the demanding masses through banal ballots, and then acting accordingly?