The Manchester United board has quietened the English Premier League grapevine by appointing Ole Gunnar Solskjaer permanently; handing the Norwegian a three-year contract. 

Ole Gunnar Solksjaer has transformed from a baby-faced substitute savant to a leader of one of the most famous of footballing architectures after Ed Woodward took some time out from his role as The Equalizer to hand the Norwegian a three-year contract as the manager of Manchester United.

You can do all the addition and subtraction that you like; an invisible archetype exists in our minds, a lock and key mechanism of fear that means few of us ever reach our real potential. Thank goodness, for the sake of all Red Devils, that fear didn’t prevent everyone involved in the club from making the right deal.

Flip-flops.