Jonathan Wilson

They haven't been rubbish either.

They've been pretty good with the odd blip.

In some ways, it's good that they have the defeat to Leeds, for instance, and then were able to come back and win.

So that tells you a little bit that it wasn't just a balloon waiting to be burst.

But I still really have no idea how good a coach Michael Carrick is.

And I'm really glad I don't have to make the decision.

I mean, I think the big thing is how the dressing room, and particularly Vinicius, reacts to Mourinho's comments after the Benfica-Real Madrid game when Prestiani, he ended up getting a six-game ban for homophobic abuse, although the initial allegation was of racial abuse of Vinicius.

And Mourinho came up with some very strange comments after that, sort of saying, how could this club ever racially abuse anybody when Eusebio was one of our great players?

I'm not sure how Vinicius will take that.

And clearly...

You know, Vinicius had the support of his teammates if you look at what happened on the pitch.

So that would seem to me a really obvious sticking point.

Now, I don't know, maybe Vinicius has moved on and doesn't care.

I don't know.

But that's certainly something we would need resolving, I think.

Well, look, it's better than what was before.

But I mean, the obvious thing to do, the right thing to do is after the last 16, you cancel group stage yellow cards.

Because to be honest, if you're getting two yellow cards and you're...

within four games, you should be getting a ban.

And what you don't want, if you don't get booked in the first two group games, you've got carte blanche to take a yellow in the third group game.