There was an awkward juxtaposition on Sunday evening as Paul Pogba posted various videos from his brother Floretin’s wedding in France, just hours after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had revealed illness had “set him back quite a bit” and would at least keep him out of tonight’s game against Colchester United.



The quotes did not emerge until Tuesday morning because of newspaper embargoes and in the period between there was more than one person trying to figure out how the images of Pogba dancing with his customary zeal could possibly marry up with a diagnosis of flu-like symptoms.



An answer came back that Pogba was given permission to attend the nuptials in his homeland last Friday and he picked up a cold while he was there. Quite a lot of the ceremony is said to have taken place outdoors and the winter chill played its part. So he wasn’t dancing while United were playing. Everything added up for once in a story that increasingly does...