Kieran Shannon: Ten Hag must know Martial is beyond saving if he’s to save his own job

While a shrinking but still sizeable number of people play Wordle, here with our penchant for sport the daily weakness and game of choice to rack the brain is Sporcle.

Want to have a stab at naming every hurling or football All Star of the 21st century in less than 21 minutes? Or every grand slam champion in tennis in the open era? Then Sporcle is the place for you. You can thank or curse us later.

In the past week a particular couple of quizzes, along with a match on Tyneside that was on the telly, brought home just what a phenomenon Anthony Martial is.

Being an NBA buff, I came across a quiz last Friday in which you’d to name the most-tenured current player at each of the NBA’s 30 franchises. I managed to get 29 out of 30 (shoot us for not knowing a journeyman by the name of Jae’Sean Tate, now in his fourth season in Houston, is technically the longest-serving current member of the Rockets), but the exercise was still something of an education.

While Trae Young still seems like the young fella with the Atlanta Hawks and LeBron James only the other year joined the Lakers, both are all that is left from the respective teams they signed up with back in the summer of 2018.

Outside of Stephen Curry, none of the 30 has been with the same team for more than 12 years. Of the other nine franchises that had someone who has been with them for eight seasons or more, seven are led by perennial All Stars that everyone knows by just one name – Giannis, Jokic, Embiid, Booker, Towns, Siakam, Brown.

My other specialist subject is Premier League history which is how the other day we’d to have a go at naming all 32 Manchester United strikers who played for Alex Ferguson in the Premier League era. From Dion Dublin in August 1992 to Robin