Manchester United can't allow a spectacular PSG failure to influence their manager decision again

It was a disaster of epic proportions for Paris Saint-Germain, but it was also nothing new.

As Manchester United well know from their own historic Champions League night against the Parisians, they are serial bottlers. That night when United fought back from a huge deficit and knocked them out in remarkable circumstances through Marcus Rashford's last gasp penalty wasn't the first time they have blown it in Europe's top competition and it certainly wasn't the last.

The latest edition in the ceaselessly entertaining list of PSG's epic Champions League failures came on Wednesday night, as they somehow managed to go out in even more spectacular fashion they did against United. In a drunken barroom brawl between two washed-up fighters of a knockout tie with Real Madrid, the French side went two goals ahead on aggregate with the incredible Kylian Mbappe scoring in both matches.

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But then in the final half an hour of the 180 minutes of football Los Blancos, and specifically Karim Benzema, launched a stunning comeback. After capitalising on a mistake from the goalkeeper to begin the fightback in earnest, the Frenchman then bagged two stunning strikes in a matter of two breathtaking minutes to put the kings of the Champions League into the quarter-finals.

PSG had it in the palm of their hand. A victory over a team so synonymous with the competition, a club they want to emulate and overtake. It would have been momentous. They threw it all away.

They say you can take the man out of Tottenham but you can't take Tottenham out of the man. This certainly was a very 'Spursy' night for Pochettino and it is by no means a good look when he was brought in to finally win