“I’ve always got nicknames,” said Harry Maguire. Yet they are rarely this flattering. A moment of trickery meant ‘Slabhead’ became ‘Harrydinho’, the unlikely flair player in the Manchester United ranks. “I’m happy with that one, that’ll do,” said Maguire after United’s emphatic 3-0 win in Bilbao.
The Maguire shimmy, turning the luckless left-back Mikel Jauregizar one way and then the other, was unleashed against Athletic Bilbao, as if a tricky winger had been concealed in the body of a cumbersome centre-back. A fine cross followed, Casemiro scored and Manchester United led.
