It's either part of some high-stakes 10-dimensional strategy we cannot fathom or signs of a man with a kamikaze pilot approach to emotional restraint.

Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim has labeled his side the “worst team” in the club’s history after yet another chastening Premier League defeat on Sunday.

Someone needed to say it, to spell out in public how far these Manchester United players had fallen. You just never expected it would be their own manager. Ruben Amorim’s verdict on his hapless team was so savage,