TERRACE TALK: Man United - Jose Mourinho’s alternative facts almost trump Donald

A Sheffield university academic penned a rather silly piece on ‘The Conversation’ website the other week, comparing Donald Trump’s media management technique to that of José Mourinho. 

To be fair, it looked a little less silly after the rather wretched defeat at Hull, when José unveiled his first Trumpian ‘alternative fact’ — that the match had, in fact, finished in a draw.

I suspect many a Red would have been amused by his startlingly original refusal to recognise a goal, with its whiff of a capricious banana republic dictator declining to concede he’s just lost a brief border war.