Its quite easy to explain why utd & every other team go through these slumps. The players are not good enough to sustain any form for long. If they were they would be playing for better teams elsewhere. Also the days of clubs like utd having reserve players good enough to replace first choices is long gone. If they were good enough they would be playing or handing in transfer requests. Us,Aberdeen,Hibs,Motherwell,St.Johnstone & others all take turns at being best of the rest or being utter pish. If we lose any of our players for any reason its usually catastrophic to our form. I think players nowadays have a lot to answer for in terms of application,caring enough & believing that going on a 6 or 7 game unbeaten run means they have arrived. They dont seem to think we should expect that is what we should see all season.