With no United news to report today, it was awfully kind of Manchester City’s Mario Balotelli to provide us with some light entertainment.

After embarrassing himself with a failed trick, instead of putting the ball in the back of the net, Roberto Mancini hauled the striker off. The two, not for the first time, then had a blazing row. Mancini, who clearly has no control whatsoever over the 20-year-old, followed him down the touchline, as the mardy striker stomped off, ignoring him.

Can you imagine anything like this ever happening at United? This is how it feels to be City…