‘Emotional’ Evra omitted for Dutch trip

Patrice Evra has been left out of Manchester United’s Europa League trip to Amsterdam as a result of his “emotional week”.

Evra was missing from the Red Devils squad that flew into the Dutch capital yesterday, just four days after he was at the centre of the handshake row with Luis Suarez. “We have rested Patrice,” said Alex Ferguson. “It has been an emotional week for him and it is the right thing to do.”

It was the first time Ferguson has spoken about Saturday’s events since he labelled Suarez “a disgrace’ and claimed he should be sold.