From that position, no one would have envisaged such a poor United side turning the game upside-down.
Furthermore, the high-tech toll system would cost more than the actual road improvements.Black and white, rich and poor united in outrage.
They equalised within two minutes, though, with Scott Crabbe capitalising on poor United defending, and although Craig Easton put them behind again, Pat McGinlay deservedly steered Ayr to a replay 16 minutes from the end with an excellent header from a corner.
"We were very, very poor; United were very, very good.
Inverness composed themselves and were level within three minutes when Tade's cross following some poor United defending was forced over the line by a combination of Ross and United's Paul Dixon.
They fully deserved to be ahead against a poor United side who missed the midfield craft and composure of Michael Carrick, who was only on the bench, as well as the presence up front of the injured Wayne Rooney.
Sunderland had capitalized on some poor United defending early in the match to take the lead through Craig Gardner, but was made to rue missed opportunities as United's latest young star stole the show.
"She was amazing," he says, showing me with pride a 1972 student newsletter for Packer College, in which she wrote an essay hoping the poor would unite.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, sworn in as the 14th president of the Philippines on Wednesday, promised to create up to 10 million jobs in the next six years, balance the budget, improve tax collection, provide cheap medicine for the poor and unite a nation that has not quite settled down since it ousted the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos almost two decades ago.
We were black, white, thin, fat, rich and poor and united in being geeks.
