It was a coincidence that as Paul Pogba, dressed in a white tracksuit, flashed up on the television screens at Old Trafford on Tuesday night, the Manchester United fans started to sing “Jose Mourinho.”
Most of the supporters inside the stadium will not have seen the Frenchman, tucked away in a private box in the Sir Alex Ferguson stand after being rested in Tuesday’s Carabao Cup loss to Derby County, but it did serve as a reminder that, in this increasingly messy power struggle, most fans have now sided with Mourinho.