TERRACE TALK: Man United - League Cup offers opportunity for consolation

We don’t know whether Jose Mourinho keeps a cat for company in his lonely Lowry lodgings, but Tiddles would surely have needed to avoid his swinging boot last night.

Judging by the way our Portugeezer man o’war was angrily lashing out at anything in sight even before half-time, can you imagine the state he would have lathered himself up into by the time he got ‘home’?

Obviously, watching Reds didn’t exactly trip the light fantastic on the way back either.