In an unlikely twist, Noah Solskjaer - son of Manchester United boss Ole - has clarified that he is regularly fed while directing a jibe at Tottenham Hotspur's Jose Mourinho.
The post-match furore in a game that went the way of Solskjaer Sr., the United boss shared his thoughts on the behaviour of Tottenham Hotspur's Son Heung-Min as he reveled in a 3-1 win.
"If my son stays down like this for three minutes," he remarked to Sky Sports, "and he gets his 10 mates around him to help him up, yeah, he won’t get any food."
What seemed a throwaway remark by Solskjaer quickly developed legs, however.
"Sonny is very lucky that his father is a better person than Ole," responded Jose Mourinho. "Because as a father you have always to feed your kids, doesn’t matter what they do.
"If you have to steal to feed your kids you steal. I’m very, very disappointed. With me, like we say in Portugal, bread is bread and cheese is cheese. I have told Ole already what I think about his comments."
A surprising response, perhaps, Noah Solskjaer, Ole's son, has now weighed in on proceedings.
Manchester United's manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, right, greets Tottenham's Son Heung-Min"Yes, I laughed a lot on Sunday too," the youngster told local newspaper Tidens Krav when asked about the conflict between Mourinho and his father, "[but] I always get food, I can assure everyone about that."
Yet, true to what Ole Gunnar suggested, Noah Solskjaer didn't have much sympathy for Son Heung-Min's dramatics.
"I have never been lying down the way Son did," he clarified, before sticking the boot into the Spurs boss. "Mourinho probably just wanted to take the focus away from the fact they had lost."
The defeat for Spurs has left them in seventh place in the Premier League table, six points off the top four with seven games left to play.
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