Terrace Talk: Ole’s at the wheel of a clown car stuck in flux

“Don’t get me wrong,” sighed a favourite old colleague as we balefully examined United’s dim final-week prospects yesterday morning. “I’m still glad Ole’s at the wheel. It’s just that he’s driving a sodding clown car.”

A few more bits fell off the comic contraption at Huddersfield yesterday, although no-one in the red-nosed away end was laughing. Especially when the custard pie arrived from Chelsea.