Yesterday Manchester United beat the stuffing out of Tottenham by 3 goals to one. But, the game isn’t what we are talking about on Monday morning. In his post-game interview, Man United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer expressed his displeasure at Son Heung-min’s play-acting and VAR disallowing his team’s goal.
In the 33rd minute, Manchester United midfielder Scott Mctominay glided past Spurs’ Son Heung-min with the ball but had a harmless swipe at the Korean with his right arm. Mctominay’s hand barely made contact with Son’s face but the Korean went down like he had been shot by a sniper. Mctominay passed the ball to Pogba, who played a through ball to Cavani who finished it to put Manchester United a goal up.
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Oh but wait, Son is still on the floor, holding his face like he took a punch from 1988 Mike Tyson.
VAR asked the referee to check the incident. He did. He disallowed the goal and gave Spurs the foul. *Facepalm*.
Son, ironically, scored Tottenham’s goal 6 minutes later. However, Manchester United fought back in the second half and scored three goals.
When asked about the incident at the end of the game Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: “The game is gone, it’s absolutely gone… If my son stays down like this for 3 minutes and needs 10 mates to help him up, he won’t get any food.”
Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho couldn’t but chime in: ‘”Sonny is very lucky that his father is a better person than Ole. Because a father, you have always to feed your kids, it doesn’t matter what they do. If you have to steal to feed your kids you steal. I have told Ole what I think about his comments.”
Son’s behaviour was embarrassing. There should be retrospective action against players who behave like this.
But!
He does not deserve the racial abuse he has been getting on the internet.
Son’s diving should not be the story of the game really. The story should be about how Tottenham fell apart and how Manchester United played well – especially Paul Pogba. The story should be how Jose Mourinho is 5-to and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer may be a better manager than most of us want him to be.