Managers prove game for a laugh

A break from the norm for a bit of light relief this week, if only to mark David Moyes’ sudden change in fortunes on Wednesday night.

Certainly, the Manchester United manager’s relief at the final whistle in Old Trafford was palpable but then that was before he learned yesterday that the light involved is an oncoming train, clothed in the livery of Bayern Munich. That’s one way to wipe the smile off a chap’s face, right enough.

Given that, up until the win over Olympiacos, Moyes had spent his first season in Manchester almost permanently cast in the famous Private Eye role of “ashen-faced supremo”, it was no real surprise that the Scot failed to make the line-up for BBC 4’s ‘Some Football Managers Telling Jokes’ this week.