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11.16am GMT
Perhaps the masterplan to stop Manchester United coming from behind to win away games (six times out of six after the 3-2 success at Sheffield United) is not to score in the first place. There’s an idea for you Jose. Take the 0-0 and then claim the best team drew.
Here’s Ole Gunnar Solskjær scratching his head a bit on why Man Utd keep having to be spurred into action:
From when I was playing, we seemed never to make it easy for ourselves.
Of course the start was so sloppy, slow again and I’m very surprised about that because we’d spoken about it, showed videos. We knew exactly what was going to happen and it happened.
11.06am GMT
Opening the blog with a line about custard has sparked the inevitable. So thanks for the early efforts - John Flanagan, Jelly Alli and Tart au citron Atkinson.
Here’s a line from The Fiver archives on a similar subject:
When Rafa Benitez took over at Valencia in 2001, he immediately antagonised his players by banning paella, olives and ice cream from the club’s menu. “We reached two [Big Cup] finals and won the Spanish Cup with the old one,” Kily Gonzalez sulked at the time. “Now we’re not allowed to eat ice cream. We’ve been commanded to eat flans and custard.” Continue reading...