Ole in bizarre scrap with Jose... over son’s dinner

JOSE MOURINHO and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer were involved in an extraordinary war of words after the Manchester United boss accused Tottenham’s Son Heung-min of ‘conning’ his team out of a goal. Although United recovered to win 3-1, there was controversy in the first half when an Edinson Cavani goal was ruled out because Scott McTominay caught Son in the face with his hand in the build-up. Solskjaer felt the Spurs star overreacted before referee Chris Kavanagh reviewed the incident on a touchline monitor before awarding Tottenham a free kick. ‘The game has absolutely gone — it was a perfectly good goal,’ said Solskjaer. ‘We shouldn’t be conned. If my son stays down for three minutes and he needs his ten mates to help him up, he won’t get any food. We weren’t conned, the referee was.’ That drew and angry response from Mourinho, who said: ‘I just want to say Sonny is very lucky that his father is a better person than Ole. Because a father — I am 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. In Portugal we say, “Bread is bread and cheese is cheese”. ‘I am very disappointed. I have told Ole already what I think about his comments.’ Asked about that conversation, Solskjaer appeared to backtrack on his comments. ‘Sometimes some words are being said,’ he added. ‘The important thing is we are colleagues and friends. ‘Before, after and sometimes during a game you can have a bit of a dispute and I think we have utmost respect for each other. I have some words I can take back.’ Mourinho also rowed back on his claim Paul Pogba should have been sent off for elbowing Serge Aurier in the face. ‘We were unlucky because maybe Pogba should get a red card for an elbow on Aurier,’ he said, before later adding: ‘No, I’m not saying that. I said to comment on the (disallowed) goal let’s be honest and comment on everything.’