Jose Mourinho fumes as Man United shirk responsibility

Huddersfield Town 2 Manchester United 1: Jose Mourinho suggested his entire Manchester United team should come to the press conference to explain themselves after this bizarre surrender at newly-promoted Huddersfield but, showing the same sort of resolve they had displayed for the previous 90 minutes, his players firmly ducked the challenge.

It was left to Huddersfield’s delighted staff and players to pick through the pieces of this extraordinary afternoon, therefore, and while winger Tom Ince spared United the sort of character assassination his father Paul once famously received at the hands of Alex Ferguson, it was telling stuff.

“Big Time Charlie,” Fergie had labelled Paul in a fly-on-the-wall documentary when he returned with his new club Liverpool. If ever a phrase could sum up United’s attitude in windy, rain-lashed West Yorkshire on Saturday, that was it.