Compared to Louis van Gaal’s honeymoon, Kimye’s went unheralded.

A brilliant wrap of a schizophrenic season by our columnist.

A certain symmetry. The man who went before — Big Ron — met Alex Ferguson in autumn of 1986 and found him strangely distant. Soon after, the rumours Ron had heard proved correct.

Reluctant gambler Mick Martin will rarely punt the full house: “You’d have put your kitchen sink on Hernandez to score there.”

United have been looking for heroes in unfamiliar places lately.

So, @moyesy, @avb, and @rvp walk into a metaphorical bar…

They came to bury Moyesy, certainly not to praise him.

“Some of the biggest names in football… they were sitting on the bench, looking for direction. I thought, ‘Jesus Christ. What do I do here?’ And then I thought I’d just better do what got me there in the first place. They seemed to think it was okay, what I did, after a while.”

With the close of the transfer window looming and a host of malcontent Premier League players still held captive at their clubs, Robbie Savage has stepped up to advise want-away stars on pushing through the move of their dreams.

For the mega-rich Premier League stars, working over Christmas has its compensations — often hundreds of thousands of them. Rochdale’s Brian Barry-Murphy spoke to Liam Mackey on the rewards of being a lower-league footballer in England and how the ‘son of Jimmy’ went on to make his own mark in a different sport.

Blackpool boss Ian Holloway admits he is unlikely to be able to bring Seamus Coleman back to the club.

Everton manager David Moyes has admitted he was focused on avoiding relegation at the start of this season – only to embark on an “amazing” turn-around which saw him named League Managers’ Association Manager of the Year last night.