Terrace Talk: Man United - Hurricane Jose blows welcome winds of change

Always try to start a column with a topical reference, they tell you at Hack School. 

So: Stoke City’s ground is often described as the least meteorologically-inviting venue in the league. Thus I suppose it’s fitting that Hurricane José should finally have met its match there on Saturday.

No need, then, for the slave to be whispering to Caesar Mourinho about mortality this morning: the dodgy displays of Messrs Darmian, Bailly and Jones have seen to that. “A necessary - even welcome - bit of degiddyfication,” opined a colleague, and you can see what he’s getting at. Some had been in danger of getting carried away; Stoke, plus City’s five goals against the Dirties, have put a stop to that.