United's mighty bandwagon rumbles on relentless in its pursuit of the impossible.
A miraculously transformed Newcastle smacked the upstarts of Fulham as they had done others before them to hold off the challenge from below for another week.
This is a Champions League charge of contradiction across the board. Fading giants Liverpool and Chelsea falling way off the pace is a huge surprise. Newcastle up within the top four with Fulham, Brighton and Brentford bombing in their slipstream is equally eye-catching.
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Four clubs more normally associated with the other end of the table breathing in rarified air and disturbing the tranquility of the Super Six requires a second look to make certain the eyes are not playing tricks. The unpredictability of football is why we all fell in love with the game of course.
Eddie Howe is comprehensively outdoing Jurgen Klopp. Pep going pop in his endeavour to lift yet another PL title. Mikel Arteta scatter Gunning his way to the very top. Man United rising again under a manager who threatens to rid himself of the considerable shadow of Sir Alex.
We of course care only of Steady Eddie and NUFC and just as we were contemplating a third successive PL 0-0 draw in a game of ebb and flow up popped our Forgotten Man to nick it at the death.
Alexander Isak has undergone a torrid time with injury since he arrived to much fanfare after his record £60m transfer but there he was standing alone centre stage one minute from the end of normal time to nod in United's winner and his third goal in black and white.
How precious, how rewarding, how relieving! This was indeed a game of high drama _ not only a last gasp winner but a penalty that never was!
It all beggared belief. Not long after the hour mark United were attacking yet again when the referee Robert Jones was called back by VAR to look at a possible Fulham penalty seconds before.
He duly gave it and former Magpie Aleksandar Mitrovic 'scored' to whirl away in delight at his first goal against those who used to pay his wages. Except that he had kicked the ball twice and it was a free-kick to Newcastle. You couldn't make it up!
Thus let off United went on to record five successive top flight clean sheets for the first time in the club's history and in the process equalled another club record of 14 top division games without defeat set in 1950 and matched in 2011.
The records tumble like confetti in a high wind as United march on towards glory, beaten in the league only once all season over 19 matches. Yet the frustration during the second-half could be cut with a knife as United searched for the elusive goal that never looked as though it would come.
At one time they had Callum Wilson, Allan Saint-Maximin, Miggy Almiron and Isak all on the field at the same time and still Fulham stood firm counter attacking whenever the chance arose to warn all that there was to be no automatic surrender.
Bruno Guimaraes, so often the heartbeat of this United side, was off by half-time hobbling badly with an ankle injury and he will worry the hierarchy as the matches pile up including a two-legged league cup semi-final. But this was an afternoon of throbbing tension when Geordies received what they were praying for in the most dramatic of finishes to a crazy match.
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