Anti-football, dull and ugly... but that’s how Jose wins titles ANDY
Liverpool were poor but Manchester United were so negative that their supporters, after the final whistle, lauded Louis van Gaal like some sort of folklore giant. They celebrated the Dutch bluffer, performing media duties on the perimeter path, as though he was a reminder of a more cavalier time. Which, of course, he isn’t, although at least he had a crack when he came here as manager. Jose Mourinho made a typically articulate fist of justifying what can be at best described as his team’s conservatism but it did not wash. He rightly pointed out that Jurgen Klopp’s own lack of adventure contributed to the stalemate but it did not convince. He insisted this was a match that some people might have found entertaining – but this contest was anti-football. There is