Manchester United v Ipswich Town: Premier League – live

He has spent his entire United career being massively inconsistent, more often than not playing poorly and there’s absolutely no evidence that has changed. I think the press needs to accept that and stop getting excited when he starts.” More often than not playing poorly? That’s quite a harsh view of a player who had scored about 130 goals in 400 games for United before turning 27.

And who, as he has (gently) pointed out himself, has had to cope with inconsistent management – from Van Gaal to Mourinho to Solskjaer to Rangnick to Ten Hag to Amorim and now Carrick, who seems to have handled him well so far. Rashford has been bright today, for what it’s worth.