Ian Herbert

IAN HERBERT: A 16-year-old Danish striker wearing '9', or sometimes '16', in United's under-18s team has been an emblem of the club's resolve to overhaul their recruitment of young players.

IAN HERBERT: The names Harry Pitman, Andre Salmon, Elianne Andam and Victor Lee might not mean much to you because we seem to have become immune to the way they died.

IAN HERBERT: He offered a jocular reply about the local property market before declaring that managing in such a place would be 'not a problem. Not a problem at all.'

IAN HERBERT: The pile-on started within an hour or so. United's Rainbow Devils supporters 'respected' Mazraoui views, yet not so much as to accept his right not to wear a jacket.

IAN HERBERT IN PLYMOUTH: Failure here, after that disaster at Birmingham, would seem to offer little prospect of a road back into management.

IAN HERBERT: Just when you thought Gianni Infantino could not look more preposterous, he was back at a lectern on Wednesday, embarrassing himself.

IAN HERBERT: A time, 20 years ago, when Manchester seemed to be struggling as much as its two football teams, who met at Old Trafford on the first Sunday in November.

IAN HERBERT: So there goes the notion of Match of the Day being an appointment to watch the nation's signature football presenter guiding us through an hour of entertainment.

IAN HERBERT: Is it heresy to suggest that the public air of melancholy he's currently exuding - casting himself as the tragic hero and scratching his face until it bleeds - is precious and rather needs?

IAN HERBERT: Postecoglou cut a highly sensitive figure and found himself depicted as a Australian man who does not take the notion of winning games seriously..