An hour or so before the home game with Nottingham Forest on Saturday, a Manchester United official sat down next to me in the press room at Old Trafford and began to explain everything that was wrong with a critical piece I had written about the club’s handling of the Mason Greenwood affair.
Greenwood, you will recall, was recorded saying ‘I don’t give a **** what you want, you little ****’ to a woman who said she didn’t want to have sex with him. ‘Push me again and watch what happens to you,’ he says later in the exchange.