Terrace Talk: Will this be considered ‘a good season’?

What constitutes a ‘good season’ to you? One asks, because José Mourinho raised the question after United’s efficient and occasionally rousing victory at the new Wembley on Saturday.

“Lads, it’s Spurs,” we may have chuckled, in memory of Fergie’s famous denigratory teamtalk, but it was undoubtedly a good win against a talented and well-managed side.

It was thus clearly a good moment for José to pursue the query; in the space of a few days, in both Bournemouth and Brent, he’d resoundingly knocked back his harsher critics. The West Brom result, as I suggested last week, did indeed prove to be just a “one-off car-crash”.