Terrace Talk: Man United - Lukaku’s goals are so welcome even if he remains a doubt

Much of Manchester will spend most of next week heading in and out of various Christmas party hangovers. United fans may be forgiven for thinking we’ve started early. 

For most of last week felt like a giant post-derby hangover, including the two games we won. Sadly, unlike the best hangovers, we could recall only too clearly what had got us into that state in the first place.

There was certainly a fair amount of hungover grumpy moaning last night about United not putting on a show at the Hawthorns. Two-up against a struggling team, Mourinho sat back and ‘contained’ instead of turning on the after-burners, and we ended up having to endure an unnecessarily fraught climax. “Fergie’s boys would’ve gone on to win that four or five nil,” groaned a typical postmatch caller to TalkSport radio.