The son of Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has considered his father’s feud with Tottenham Hotspur boss Jose Mourinho after the Norwegian coach said he would not feed his son if he was simulating an injury.
The feud erupted after Sunday’s 3-1 victory in the Premier League for United when Solskjaer senior criticized Spurs forward Son Heung-Min for exaggerating a blow to the face.
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United got a goal disallowed after Son appeared to have been hit by Scott McTominay in the run-up, with Solskjaer saying afterwards that if his son, who plays for Kristiansund in his native Norway, went like Son did, he wouldn’t feed. him.
That led to an angry reaction from Mourinho, who said Son’s father was a better father than Solskjaer, but Noah defended his father in Tidens Krav, a local newspaper in Kristiansund.
“I always get food, I can assure you,” the 20-year-old midfielder told the newspaper with a smile, adding that his Norwegian team-mates had plagued him with the incident when he arrived for training on Monday, asking if he had breakfast.
“I’ve never laid down like Son. Mourinho probably just wanted to take the focus away from the fact that they were lost,” he said.