Manager’s reaction to poor run stirs memories of his graceless second Chelsea exit while the personal attack on Luke Shaw fits in with previous behaviour
It fell to Marouane Fellaini to break the news. Put up in front of the media following his team’s defeat by Watford, the midfielder told French TV: “We can say it’s a little crisis because a club like Manchester United cannot lose three games.” And there it was, the c-word.
The Belgian might be overstating matters. As far as the league is concerned, the crisis-hit United are only a point behind Liverpool, who everybody agrees have started the season like a train. What’s more, a club very much like United lost four games in a row in December last year and three in a row in January 2013. So maybe Fellaini’s remarks ought to be paraphrased: a club like Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United should not lose three games when the team are managed by José Mourinho.
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