Sport rarely keeps to the script. This week, a football giant was dismantled by a club that was in the lower leagues not long ago, a batter scored the fastest double century in ODI history and still lost, and a side that was 110 for six found a way to win by an innings. Collapse, comeback and consola-tion all turned up, sometimes in the same afternoon. Fortunes shift quickly, and the week was a reminder of why sport is so compelling.Manchester United are in open revolt. The storm broke after a 2-0 defeat at Atlético Madrid, where World Cup-winning defender Lisandro Martínez criti-cised the hierarchy for failing to invest in the last transfer window. A tooth-less 1-1 draw at Elland Road in the derby followed. Then came Wednes-day’s 4-1 humiliation at Como, Cesc Fàbregas’s Champions League debu-tants, one of the worst defensive displays in recent memory. Captain Bruno Fernandes, substituted early in the second half, blamed manager Michael Carrick’s myopic tactics and squad selection. The scale of the decline is stark: when United last........

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