OLE: IT’S HEUNG-MIN CON!

UNITED TRIUMPH BUT SOLSKJAER CLAIMS: IF MY SON STAYED DOWN LIKE THAT, HE WOULDN’T GET ANY FOOD MOURINHO FURIOUS WITH REDS BOSS – ‘SONNY IS VERY LUCKY HIS FATHER IS BETTER PERSON THAN OLE’

JOSE MOURINHO has launched a furious rebuke of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s claim that Heung-min Son conned the match officials in Manchester United’s win at Tottenham.

Referee Chris Kavanagh disallowed an Edinson Cavani goal after viewing the VAR monitor with Son having gone down holding his face after being fended off by Scott McTominay in the build-up.

Son then put Spurs ahead shortly afterwards but United hit back to win 3-1 with goals from Fred, Cavani and Mason Greenwood.

All that was overshadowed by a post-match war of words when United boss Solskjaer said of Son: ‘We shouldn’t be conned. If my son stayed down for three minutes and needed ten mates to help him up, he wouldn’t get any food.’

After defeat badly damaged Spurs’ hopes of Champions League qualification while United consolidated second place in the Premier League, Mourinho launched into an unprompted monologue about his Old Trafford successor.

‘I’m very, very surprised that after the comments that Ole made on Sonny, you don’t ask me about it,’ said the Spurs boss.

‘Because – and I told Ole already this because I met him just a few minutes ago – if it’s me, telling that player A, B or C from another club, “if it was my son I wouldn’t give him dinner tonight”, what would be the reaction of that?

‘I just want to say that Sonny is very lucky that his father is a better person than Ole. I am a father. As a father you have always to feed your kids. Doesn’t matter what they do. If you have to steal to feed your kids, you steal.

‘I’m very disappointed in five, six, seven questions you ignore the dimensions of that comment.’

Solskjaer felt the injustice of the disallowed goal inspired United even though Son had tapped Spurs in front six minutes later.

Cavani gave an outstanding centre-forward’s performance as United extended their unbeaten away run to 23 games – against a side that won 6-1 at Old Trafford earlier in the season – and his boss is desperate to persuade him to stay beyond the end of the season.

‘We are awaiting his decision if he wants to stay or wants to move on,’ Solskjaer said. ‘With the pandemic, it has not been possible to have friends over, you can’t have family over without quarantine. He is thinking about what he wants to do. I want him at Old Trafford.’

Spurs last night condemned ‘abhorrent’ racist abuse directed at Son on social media after the game.