Amorim's phone faux pas

27-05-2025

Unless you are the person whose phone it is, it is quite amusing when a ringtone begins to sound in the middle of a news conference.Jose Mourinho once answered it and started to have a conversation with the person at the other end.Today, it was Ruben Amorim's phone that went off, just as Major General Khiev Sameth, president of the South-East Asia Football Federation, was explaining how brilliant it was that Manchester United were in Kuala Lumpur at the start of their post-season tour.Amorim apologised, then, when I asked him if he would have to fine himself - the standard punishment for a phone not being switched off - for the faux pas, he said he should."I should have the phone always on silent, especially in this occasion," he said."It's a house alarm. When I'm away, I like to control my kids."

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