One might think that following a shocking start to the season, in which Manchester United have been lucky to pick up the three measly points they have, a football pitch would be the last thing manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wants to see when he arrives home.
However the Norwegian, who had Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk as his tenant until Solskjaer’s family moved back into the house he built 12 years ago, wants to build an all-weather, five-a-side surface at his Cheshire pad.
Solskjaer has told the local council that the new surface will be ‘incidental to the enjoyment’ of the mansion.