Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s son has weighed in on his father’s dispute with Tottenham Hotspur boss Jose Mourinho after the Norwegian coach said he would not feed his son if he simulated an injury.
The row erupted after Sunday’s 3-1 Premier League victory for United when senior Solskjaer criticized Spurs striker Son Heung-Min for exaggerating a blow to the face.
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United had a goal disallowed after Son appeared to have been hit by Scott McTominay during the build-up, and Solskjaer later said that if his son, who plays Kristiansund in his native Norway, went the way of Son, no he would feed.
This provoked a furious response from Mourinho, who said Son’s father was a better father than Solskjaer, but Noah came to his father’s defense in Tidens Krav, a local Kristiansund newspaper.
“I always eat, I can assure you,” the 20-year-old midfielder told the newspaper with a smile, adding that his Norwegian teammates had mocked him for the incident when he arrived for training on Monday, asking- him if he had breakfast.
“I never let myself down like Son did. Probably Mourinho just wanted to move the focus away from the fact that they had lost,” he said.