Terrace Talk: Lukaku’s brace of braces screams ‘turning point’

Amidst the 101 different things we like about Ole is his refreshingly succinct and honest style in front of the microphones. After years of Fergie’s mindgames, José’s psychodramas, and Van Loony’s out and out wibble, Ole’s cheerful Scandi bluntness threatens to put matchday hacks out of business.

Not only does Ole give them nothing to write about in terms of spoken idiocies or phoney outrages, he also obviates the need to read hacks’ match summaries. Because can anyone sum up Saturday better than this? “Character and belief [won it], more than quality. There was quality in the three finishes, but we lacked a little bit of that class.” Boom; fewer than 20 words, job done, move on.