TERRACE TALK: Man United - Wayne Rooney scuttling Liverpool would crown it all

Let’s get the formalities out of the way first. Mouthy BBC pundit Ian Wright has sternly told us that anyone not worshipping at the altar of Wayne Rooney this past weekend is “disgraceful”.

Presumably not wanting to be the subject of his fatwa, you and I should doff our caps and acknowledge that reaching Sir Bobby’s record is a notable achievement, albeit one we’d begun to think Rooney would never manage, as he painfully laboured his way through 2016.

Some Reds, “disgracefully”, appeared not to have got the memo, as one comrade reported after the match: “amongst the old timers in the North Stand, there was barely a ripple of applause when Rooney scored. Once they’d all sat down (it takes some of them a while) a lone voice rang out, to sniggers: “right — now China’s that way ...”