Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær has clearly studied at Jurgen Klopp’s school for ridiculous excuses because he claimed that the team’s poor home form was due to all the red banners in the stands.
Okay then.
United have won just eight of their 15 Premier League home games this season, while Real Sociedad and AC Milan both left Old Trafford with a draw in the Europa League, but United’s impressive away record has helped them complete.
Old Trafford has been painted red in the absence of fans Clive Brunskill / Getty Images
Finding out why Old Trafford has lost his sense of fear has been high on Solskjaer’s agenda and it seems he has decided to blame a color. As you do.
“If you look at all the banners around the edge, they are no longer red,” Solskjær said (via Sky Sports News).
“We have been looking at this and there should be no reason [why home form is worse] but some of the players have mentioned that when making the split second decision, to see if your teammate is there or not, and the red shirt, on a red background, with red spots – we have of course tried that together with the anti-racism campaign it was important to it was not red either.
Solskjaer hopes to have found out Pool / Getty Images
“When you have a 4-0 win away against Sociedad, you do not have to win at home, and we let the first match against Milan into the last minute. I still think we have played good football at home.
“We started badly with three defeats, Palace, Tottenham and Arsenal early, but we have improved.”
In Solskjaer’s defense, it is difficult to distinguish a person from a piece of cloth. Skin, hair, shorts and socks become invisible from time to time. We’ve all been there … completely.
Fortunately for United, they have got rid of banners now, and these replacements will soon be removed to welcome fans back. These fans will flock to Old Trafford in their favorite United jerseys, making the stands look like a wall of …
Is this Ole’s gray sweater moment? https://t.co/vl0SGlZuon
– Gary Neville (@ GNev2) April 14, 2021
Solskjaer’s comments sparked a laugh for Gary Neville, who joked on Twitter that the situation reminded him of Sir Alex Ferguson who forced his team to change out of his gray kit on a trip to Southampton in 1996 due to a so-called color collision.
It’s not really as bad as that, but be honest, it’s not far away.
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