In the 1980s Manchester United was the footballing byword for underachievement.
The club had struggled to rediscover
Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. & for him that was the day he returned from Vietnam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. When he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too.