One hopes the TV lip-reader was right: “When you’ve won the Premier League, let me know.” That, allegedly, is what Ashley Young said to Spurs’ Alli during a set-to on Saturday. In the “show-us-yer-medals” culture that is English football, there is no effective rejoinder to that. 

United fans tends to look after their old lags. Any ex-player who didn’t blot his copybook whilst at Old Trafford can usually count on Reds to back him up in his future ventures, or at least give him the benefit of the doubt.