While we\u2019re prepared to concede we\u2019ve probably made all that sound far more exciting than it actually was, it was just a prelude to the real entertainment. That began after the game when somebody from the United media team made the ill-advised and potentially career-damaging decision to allow Lisandro Mart\u00ednez to run the obligatory post-match interview gauntlet. For a man who hasn\u2019t been delivering much on-pitch bang for the generous buck he\u2019s been paid so far this season, Mart\u00ednez had plenty to get off his chest. Amazon Prime\u2019s pitchside reporter Gabriel Clarke thought all his birthdays had come at once as the Argentinian started spitting home truths. \u201cTonight it is easy to say the coach, easy to say the players but also we have to see other areas,\u201d he harrumphed<\/a>, pointing in a direction generally accepted to have been \u2018upstairs\u2019. \u201cI expect more [investment], 100%. I expect more from our technical director [Jason Wilcox]. Last season we did everything, we created the base to create an amazing team. You can\u2019t keep changing, changing, changing the manager. What about other areas? I can\u2019t say more.\u201d<\/p>\n Except he could. Moments later, the centre-half cut loose again, embarking on a follow-up torching of Wilcox and United\u2019s transfer policy in an interview with Peter Schmeichel for the CBS Bigger Cup B@nter Show. The former Manchester United goalkeeper, a global ambassador for the club, looked visibly flustered as Mart\u00ednez vented but couldn\u2019t shut him down despite repeated attempts to change the subject. Opinions on Mart\u00ednez\u2019s post-match tirades were mixed, with some saying a man caught red-handed in close proximity to so many on-pitch crime scenes this season has no right to belittle his teammates. Others were of the view that any club dirty laundry should be washed behind closed doors. Meanwhile, Big Website\u2019s Jamie Jackson has it on good authority that Mart\u00ednez was simply airing an opinion shared by most of his teammates<\/a>.<\/p>\n As for their spokesman? One suspects Mart\u00ednez could pay a heavy price for running his mouth off in such a public fashion, with a hefty fine and an indefinite spell training with the kids potentially just the start of any punishment that may be coming down the pike. Having spent the early part of the season defending with all the poise and assurance of a deckchair flapping in a gale-force wind, he is far from indispensable and may well be angling for a January exit from an increasingly listing United ship. If the club\u2019s technical director is still around by then, the best revenge might well be to force the mouthy mutineer to remain on board until his contract expires in June.<\/p>\n LIVE ON BIG WEBSITE<\/p>\n Join Michael Butler at 5.45pm BST for Bigger Cup updates on Lask 0-2 Liverpool, while Scott Murray will be on hand at 8pm for Pep Guardiola\u2019s expected cameo at Manchester City 1-2 PSG.<\/p>\n RECOMMENDED FOLLOWING<\/p>\n Get your sporting fill of all things Big Website when you\u2019re on BlueSpace<\/a>, TikBook<\/a>, Instachat<\/a> and Youcord<\/a>.<\/p>\n QUOTE OF THE DAY<\/p>\n \u201cMan City deserve those trophies. I love the way \u2060they play football, and after that, you have \u200bto wait [for the] \u200blast decision and nothing \u200belse \u2026 I think the trophies that you win \u200bon the \u200cpitch remains on \u200bthe pitch, \u200band they deserve to win that. I hope they can avoid that sanction\u201d \u2013 embattled Manchester City find an ally in the manager of \u2026 checks notes \u2026 Wednesday\u2019s visitors PSG, who just so happen to be nation-state owned themselves. Funny that.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a>Free newsletter |Every weekday<\/p>\n Sign up to Football Daily<\/p>\n Kick off your evenings with the Guardian’s take on the world of football<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Luis Enrique gets chatty in Manchester. Photograph: Martin Rickett\/PA<\/p>\n double quotation markWhile it was great to see the mighty Sky Blues featured in yesterday\u2019s Football Daily<\/a>, as usual I have to take issue with your statement about the club being \u2018forced to live as tenants in their own city\u2019 and \u2018having to go cap-in-hand to neighbouring villages, looking for sofas on which to crash\u2019. It was the club\u2019s owners\u2019 choice not to buy the stadium at a fair price when the opportunity was offered, just as it was their choice to go on a rent strike and move to Northampton\/Birmingham, in the hope this would bankrupt the stadium\u2019s owners (one of whom was a well-respected local charity) and let them get it for a knock-down price. Thankfully the council stood firm against these bully-boy tactics, and Sisu were eventually sent packing to be replaced by King Doug, and the rest is history. But please, let\u2019s not perpetuate the myth of the club being \u2018exiled\u2019 from their home city\u201d \u2013 Tim Russell.<\/p>\n double quotation markI for one, cannot wait to see what your finest minds come up with to replace the long-running Football Daily stalwart, Quote of the Day. Because surely, yesterday\u2019s barely believable, absolute humdinger from Craig Levein<\/a> will never be topped and so, it should be allowed to go out on a high\u201d \u2013 Andrew Parker.<\/p>\n double quotation markI don\u2019t have anything particularly funny or insightful to contribute, but I wonder if someone has a count of how many awards Football Daily has given out and how many times Noble Francis has won them. Who are the most successful winners? The FD community should know. As a major daily across the pond says in its motto, \u2018democracy dies in darkness\u2019 \u2013 Dimitris Stergiopoulos.<\/p>\n double quotation markRe: Memory Lane (yesterday\u2019s Football Daily, full email edition). Wow, that really is a mascot to scare the kids into submission. I think the only scarier thing I\u2019ve seen is whatever the Jags have running around their pitch on matchday\u201d \u2013 Ingo Herzke.<\/p>\n Kingsley\u2019s gonna\u2019 get you. 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