No substitute for Solskjaer

He may not be among the starters at the Bernabeu but if Alex Ferguson needs someone to drag Manchester United out of a Champions League hole tomorrow Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will be the man to whom he turns.

It’s hard to believe the so-called “baby-faced assassin” has now passed his 30th birthday and of those years, seven have mostly been spent warming the bench at Old Trafford.