The things you spot in Old Trafford bins. After the Blues’ 1-1 draw last weekend, I noticed – in the recycling – the caterer’s instructions for the stadium’s VIP boxes.

Each box holds eight, except Luke Shaw’s, which contains 12. Maybe he has more friends.

Revelations include a personnel company requiring lots of Guinness, one box demanding bananas and plain yoghurt, and the folk in Phil Jones’s box specially requesting very hot soup.

Chris Smalling’s girlfriend, Sam Cooke, can’t eat garlic, onion or wheat, and a resource group that uses another Old Trafford VIP box only wants plain cheeses – cheddar and red Leicester – nothing fancy.

Olly Murs has a box, and doesn’t want to be disturbed by visitors. Disappointingly, there’s no mention of prawn sandwiches, suggesting Roy Keane may have to update his famous criticism of Manchester’s corporate hospitality.

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Didier Drogba struck with a superb glancing header, only for the goal to be cancelled out in Fergietime when Robin van Persie scored following Branislav Ivanovic’s sending off for a second yellow card… the first being utterly avoidable as it was for petulantly refusing to give back the ball.

He therefore missed Tuesday night’s League Cup clash at Shrewsbury, which the Blues scraped through 2-1 in unconvincing fashion as a largely second-string side struggled to gel.

Jose Mourinho was relieved extra time wasn’t needed. “I expect people that have not been playing a lot to raise their level and create problems,” he said, pointedly.

It does, he added, make it easier to pick the side against QPR this weekend at the Bridge.

Drogs scored his third goal in three games at Shrewsbury, and his hunger and energy were there for all to see. But although match practice is making Drogs sharper, Diego Costa is still missed.

Shortlisted for Fifa world player of the year alongside Eden Hazard and Thibaut Courtois, Costa returns against a Rangers side finally showing signs of grit and purpose.