Le Sulk transfer on menu after secret Fergie lunch

THERE was a banner in the Kop on Sunday announcing “we’re supporting the manager as always”. Fair enough.

Though anyone reaching their scally-‘guarded’ cars at 3:25 would’ve heard on BBC Radio 5 “...and we’re receiving many texts saying ‘Rafa out!...” A quicker flip-flop than even their Yank owners performed, in the reverse direction, in Marseille.

Ok, ok, cheap shot: the golden rule here is that you ignore any caller to BBCRadio5, Britain’s national football autopsy, since the very act of phoning up a radio station to spout your tedious and barely-coherent wisdom places you squarely in the green ink and/or pub bore category marked “Flee from, at all costs”.