MANCHESTER UNITED V ARSENAL SUNDAY, 4.30PM, SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT

SIR JIM Ratcliffe allegedly wants to ban Manchester United office staff from working from home, the co-owner reportedly telling employees he felt having them present at Old Trafford or the club’s London offices would increase productivity.

The billionaire has been granted control of all football matters at the club but his belief in the importance of coming in to work has clearly not been lessened by the sight of several high-profile members of the playing staff turning up on a regular basis and producing very little, whether home or away.

One area of United’s workforce that can never be accused of idleness is the medical department. Physios have had to deal with a litany of injuries all year, with defenders a particular problem. Summer signing Mason Mount has spent much of his debut United campaign getting to know the medics but is finally fit and available to be filmed with team-mates chatting conspiratorially behind hands after another calamitous loss.

No one knows what Mount, Antony and Andre Onana were really discussing at Crystal Palace but you do wonder if Mount is beginning to question his choice of club.

On Sunday he will come up against his great friend and former Chelsea youth-team colleague Declan Rice, who himself made a big-money move last summer.

Rice’s switch is going pretty well, his Arsenal side firmly embroiled in the kind of thrilling title race Mount must have dreamt of when he swapped Chelsea for United.

If the fixture computer was sentient it may have had similar dreams when it spat out this meeting between fierce old rivals for the penultimate weekend of the season.

Instead, only Arsenal are gunning for glory. For United it’s back to the drawing board and, indeed, back to the office. PREDICTION 0-3