Inside Man United's FA Cup party

The key to FA Cup glory and winning the biggest match of Manchester United's season, Erik ten Hag had decided, lay in the hearts and minds of his players. Ten Hag does not always come across as the warmest of people. Indeed, if United's rousing 2-1 win over Manchester City at Wembley does prove to be his last match in charge, a lack of empathy with his team will go down as one of the factors in his failure to get the best out of them on a regular basis. As United celebrated their triumph in a suite at the Marriott Hotel in Mayfair on Saturday night, Ten Hag was handed the microphone and gave a three-minute speech that was more a technical appraisal of how United had avenged their Cup final defeat by City a year earlier.