Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho said he "let the horses run freely" after a blistering three-goal burst in four second-half minutes saw his team sweep aside Swansea City to continue their impressive winning start to the Premier League season.

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"There was happiness in our play," said the United boss. "There was no need to close the door.
"I felt in control, if you had a chance to look at me and my body language I think you could see that."
Having initially struggled to unlock their opponents' well-drilled defence despite taking the lead, United then opened the floodgates after 80 minutes as Romelu Lukaku confidently struck his third goal in two games for the club.
Paul Pogba added a third two minutes later with a delicately lifted finish and, shortly afterwards, substitute Anthony Martial fired in low to give United a second 4-0 win from their first two matches of the campaign.
"They were waiting with class, calm and consistency for the moment to kill the game," added the Portuguese.
"Swansea played with five in the back and they had a moment when they felt they had to change and when they did we had more space and killed the game.
"Anthony Martial is working hard. He is confident. The French language connection is there to help him a lot and get to the level we know he can be because the potential is huge."
Eric Bailly had tapped in just before half-time to give United a 1-0 lead after a frantic start to the match with both teams hitting the bar - Jordan Ayew's scooped cross for the hosts and Phil Jones' header for United.
After thrashing West Ham on the opening weekend, it had appeared this would be a sterner examination for United against an organised and defensively diligent Swansea side.
Mourinho's men seemed frustrated at times - Pogba had to be warned by referee Jon Moss after a quick succession of fouls - but after taking the lead, they seldom looked like squandering it against their spirited but limited opponents.
Mourinho has never failed to win the league title in his second season at a club - including both his spells at Chelsea. A summer of heavy spending had fuelled the belief he could do so again despite finishing last term 24 points adrift of the champions.
"The word that describes the team now is confident," said Mourinho.
"At the moment, everything is going in our favour - but it's not always motorway - you find difficult roads and roadworks."
With their team unchanged from last Sunday's drubbing of West Ham, United were quick to take control of this encounter, with Nemanja Matic and Pogba dictating the tempo from the base of midfield.
The visitors enjoyed as much as 66% of possession but initially lacked incision in the final third, which seemed to frustrate their players.
Pogba had to be warned by referee Moss after hauling Martin Olsson to the ground just a few minutes after he was booked for fouling Tom Carroll.
The France midfielder then went on to provide a powerful header which was brilliantly palmed on to the bar by Lukasz Fabianski, only for the ball to drop invitingly for Bailly to convert from close range.
United were happy to sit on that lead until the 81st minute when Henrikh Mkhitaryan found Lukaku unmarked in the box, and the Belgian swept in with his first real opportunity of the game.
Mourinho's side cut loose from that point, Pogba clipping the ball smartly over Fabianski and Martial finishing off a swift counter-attack to produce a scoreline which arguably flattered the visitors, as impressive as they were.
Having held on for a goalless draw at Southampton a week earlier, this was Swansea's first game since selling Gylfi Sigurdsson - pivotal in their escape from relegation last season - to Everton for £45m.
The Iceland midfielder's peach of a free-kick at Old Trafford in April was his third goal in three visits to United's home, so Mourinho and his players might have been glad to face a Swans side shorn of the influential playmaker.
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Although the Swans defended stubbornly for long periods, they offered precious little going forward.
Strikers Ayew and Tammy Abraham worked relentlessly to pressurise United's defenders, but neither had a clear scoring opportunity as their team-mates struggled to hold on to the ball.
"We were competitive for long periods of the game," said head coach Paul Clement afterwards.
"There were enough good things to say to the players - we mustn't  get our confidence affected by that.
"The second goal was even more disappointing than the first, I thought it was a gift. We missed tackles in midfield and then we were out of position at the back. They punished us and then we played to their strengths. We were 2-0 down, but a loose pass, they are so strong on the counter-attack and in the set-plays. It's a hard one to take in the end."
Clement has said he wants to use the funds from Sigurdsson's sale to sign at least two or three players and, on the evidence of their first two games of the season, he will need to spend that money wisely and quickly.
Swansea switch their attention to cup action, taking on League One MK Dons in the EFL Cup on Tuesday.
Manchester United do not enter that competition just yet - and do not have a midweek fixture. They play Leicester at Old Trafford in the Premier League at 17:30 BST on 26 August.
Match ends, Swansea City 0, Manchester United 4.
Second Half ends, Swansea City 0, Manchester United 4.
Attempt missed. Jordan Ayew (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Ander Herrera (Manchester United).
Tom Carroll (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Anthony Martial (Manchester United).
Luciano Narsingh (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wayne Routledge (Swansea City).
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).
Jordan Ayew (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Manchester United. Ander Herrera replaces Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Goal!  Swansea City 0, Manchester United 4. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul Pogba following a fast break.
Substitution, Swansea City. Oliver McBurnie replaces Tammy Abraham.
Goal!  Swansea City 0, Manchester United 3. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan with a through ball.
Goal!  Swansea City 0, Manchester United 2. Romelu Lukaku (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Ayew (Swansea City).
Antonio Valencia (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wayne Routledge (Swansea City).
Attempt blocked. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Substitution, Manchester United. Marouane Fellaini replaces Juan Mata.
Substitution, Manchester United. Anthony Martial replaces Marcus Rashford.
Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner from a direct free kick.
Leroy Fer (Swansea City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Daley Blind (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Leroy Fer (Swansea City).
Daley Blind (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luciano Narsingh (Swansea City).
Corner,  Swansea City. Conceded by Nemanja Matic.
Corner,  Swansea City. Conceded by Antonio Valencia.
Attempt missed. Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.
Substitution, Swansea City. Wayne Routledge replaces Kyle Bartley.
Substitution, Swansea City. Luciano Narsingh replaces Roque Mesa.
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Leroy Fer.
Attempt blocked. Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Pogba.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Roque Mesa (Swansea City).
Attempt missed. Tammy Abraham (Swansea City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Tom Carroll with a cross.
Attempt missed. Leroy Fer (Swansea City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.


Steam trains have returned to a Leicestershire village for the first time in 50 years after volunteers raised £100,000 to rebuild the track.

Villagers from Mountsorrel decided to restore the railway in 2007.
The Mountsorrel Railway is a branch line which runs off the Great Central Railway, the UK's only double track, mainline heritage railway.
Two industrial tank engines were demonstrated in Mountsorrel on Saturday.
The Mountsorrel Railway Project, the registered charity behind the restoration, hopes to open the railway to the public in September.
The group also aims to bring a station and a heritage centre to the village.
It hopes to share in a £3m Heritage Lottery bid by Leicestershire County Council which is currently being compiled.
The charity also hopes to restore a steam locomotive named Elizabeth that used to operate on the railway.
The 2km (1.25 mile) track was restored by the 130 volunteers, who cleared vegetation and repaired the original track foundations.
They raised the £100,000 required for the work from public donations and a £13,000 donation from Mountsorrel Parish Council.
The Mountsorrel quarry donated ballast and the charity bought second-hand track from Network Rail. The volunteers laid the track using restored tools, some of which were 100 years old.
"We surprised a lot of people," said project leader Steve Cramp. "People in the village have a lot of affection for this line."
The railway was originally used to carry granite from the Mountsorrel quarry.
The line gradually fell out of use and the track was removed in 1963.
Mr Cramp said: "All over the UK, coal mines and factories had their own railway systems that fed into the national network.
"One by one, as heavy industry disappeared, all that history went with it. We want to recreate that history."


Luxottica, the world's biggest glasses maker, has agreed a huge merger with a rival eyewear firm.

The Italian eyewear designer, which owns Ray-Ban and Oakley, is to merge with French lens maker Essilor.
Combined, the two firms will be worth about 46bn euros (Â£40bn; $49bn).
The deal will also help to offer a succession plan for Leonardo Del Vecchio, Luxottica's 81-year-old founder.
Mr Del Vecchio, an orphan who became Italy's richest man, founded Luxottica in 1961.
Through a series of acquisitions, including of Ray-Ban in 1999 and Oakley in 2007, the firm has become the world's biggest spectacles maker.
It also has licensing agreements to create eyewear for major fashion brands, including Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana and Versace.
However, it has gone through three chief executives in the past two years after Mr Del Vecchio regained executive powers at the company.
Questions about Mr Del Vecchio's succession plans have also weighed on the firm's share price, which is down 14% in the past year.
The firm said in 2014 that it had previously explored a deal with Essilor, the world's biggest maker of prescription lenses, but that conditions were not right at the time.
"The marriage between two key companies in their sectors will bring great benefits to the market, for employees and mainly for all our consumers," Leonardo Del Vecchio, Luxottica's executive chairman said in a statement.


Great Britain's women began the first Olympic rugby sevens competition with comfortable 29-3 and 40-0 victories over Brazil and Japan in Rio.

Amy Wilson-Hardy scored twice in the first half against Japan, and Heather Fisher smashed through to round off the scoring, with three tries in between.
Jasmine Joyce scored twice in the win over the hosts earlier in the day.
Britain face third seeds Canada on Sunday. The winners should avoid favourites Australia in the next round.
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France beat Spain 24-7 in the opening match of the tournament.
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Tracey Emin's most famous artwork My Bed (1998), which features stained sheets, cigarette packets, and discarded condoms, is being auctioned in London on Tuesday.

It is expected to fetch up to Â£1.2m as part of Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art sale.
The controversial piece, shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999, gives a snapshot of Emin's life after a traumatic relationship breakdown.
It is being sold by art collector Charles Saatchi, who bought it for Â£150,000 in 2000.
After installing the bed at Christie's, Emin told BBC News arts correspondent Tim Masters what it still means to her 16 years on.
It feels different knowing that it's going to leave. Before, when I've installed it, there is a level of nostalgia each time. But this time I was really quite sad because I don't know where it's going.
It's quite scary, it's out of my control completely. Not that I'm a giant control freak. But I really care about the bed, and I really love it.
I realise being here today how much it means. It's always meant a lot to me, but I didn't realise how passionate I was about it.
The best possible result is that an amazing benefactor buys it and then donates it to a museum.
I have no idea where it's going to end up - or how much anyone is going to pay for it. There's never been anything like it for sale in an art auction before.
All the duvets were wrapped up, and everything was in airtight containers.  It looked like a crime scene or a scientific project.
Today when I took the duvet out, it was flat. And when I threw it on the bed, it didn't look right. So I fluffed it up, and it still didn't look right.
So I actually made the bed and got in and pushed the cover back so it had that natural feeling that a body has been into it.
It is strange because it still has that same smell that it had 16 years ago.
Obviously the stains and everything else are touching me, and it's like being touched by a ghost of yourself.
My American friends came to see me installing it this morning, and they saw the mattress and they went: "Tracey!"
I think people are so used to seeing it as an image that they forget that it's real.
When they see it for real, it still evokes these feelings inside them because you can see the trace of a human being in there.
It's like the self-portrait of someone that's gone. It's like a time capsule, and a lot of people relate to that in some way.
Pretty good. Especially being a woman and being part of art history. I'm pleased about that. If I never do anything else great and seminal again, like the bed, I've done it. And that makes me happy.
Now I can just get on with my life and do what's really important to me - and that's making art.
My Bed is being sold as part of Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art sale on 1 July, which includes works by Francis Bacon, Peter Doig, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock.


Turkish newspapers are fuming at a diplomatic snub after the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria blocked the Turkish government's attempts to hold rallies in those countries.

The government wants to appeal to expat Turks because they can vote in a key upcoming poll.
The referendum is on transferring sweeping powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Mr Erdogan accused the Netherlands and Germany of "Nazism" in a furious outburst - and the Turkish press has echoed his anger.
But elsewhere in Europe, the focus is on how the tension will impact on Turkey's fraught relationship with Europe.
The pro-government newspapers Star, Yeni Safak and Aksam, the centre-right Haber Turk, and the centrist publication Milliyet all quoted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warning that the Netherlands "will pay the price" for banning the rallies.
The papers particularly lashed out at the Dutch authorities for using police to block Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya's access to the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam, and then using force against Turkish protesters.
Star carried a picture of a Dutch police dog attacking a protester under the headline "Wilders' dogs" - referring to Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.
Yeni Safak published the same picture with the headline "Racist dogs", while Aksam carried "Nazi dogs". Centre-right Hurriyet published the headline "Brutality".
The opposition tabloid Sozcu also criticised the Dutch, publishing a huge picture of the dog attack and the question "What kind of barbarism is that?"
Pro-government Sabah blasted the Netherlands, saying the country had "suspended freedoms" and "attacked with dogs".
Pro-government Karar's biggest headline noted that "Holland has united Turkey", adding that the government and the opposition have become "one voice" against Holland's "scandalous conduct" and "police vandalism".
Dutch reports suggest the Netherlands has also been united by the controversy.
Algemeen Dagblad's report says Prime Minister Mark Rutte had refused for years to be provoked by the government in Ankara. But as the election approached, it was the final straw. And his stance has united Dutch politics: "Such a degree of unity we have not seen during this election campaign," it says.
The Telegraaf features a picture of a Dutch policeman with a dog tackling a demonstrator under the headline "We're in charge here!"
NRC has an interview with the prime minister, who complains the crisis has affected his ability to campaign in Wednesday's elections.
The paper calls it the biggest diplomatic row of his premiership. Asked if he will apologise to Turkey, he says it was President Erdogan who likened the Netherlands to Nazi Germany, and so "he should apologise to us."
German broadsheet Die Welt ran with the headline: "Erdogan has misunderstood something in international law".
"Erdogan's government believes that it can apply its own authoritarian rules in foreign relations. But are consulates really the territory of a foreign state? The rules of diplomatic relations are clear," it states.
Tagesspiegel, a popular broadsheet daily, wrote of "a deep crack through the Netherlands".
"The relationship between the EU and Turkey is plunging into its deepest crisis," it wrote. "It seems that over the weekend new Turkish heroes were born, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan's supporters can push forward."
Austrian broadsheet Wiener Zeitung ran the line that the Dutch prime minister "will not apologise to Erdogan" and "considers Erdogan's choice of words unacceptable".
"Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has ruled out an apology for the expulsion of the Turkish family affairs minister and the entry ban on the Turkish foreign minister," it says.
Die Presse considered the fate of the ministers expelled from the Netherlands, writing: "The talk in government circles is that the treatment of the Turkish minister in the Netherlands was regarded as a breach of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations".
The Daily paper Kurier suggested President Erdogan's overseas campaigning is partly aimed at Turkish students.
"Three quarters of the 2.9 million eligible foreign students live in five European countries: Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria," it said.
France's oldest national daily, Le Figaro called the row an "unprecedented escalation between Ankara and The Hague" as President Erdogan "has embarked on a particularly bitter war of words against the Netherlands".
Le Monde sees the EU "divided" amid tension between Turkey and the Netherlands. "In France, the case has taken a political turn", it notes, adding that conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon criticised the "break-up of European solidarity".
Liberation says the row could darken the horizon for EU-Turkey relations.
"This would have an impact on the Turkish political scene: by building on this anti-European rhetoric and by placing Turkey in the position of a 'victim', Erdogan could be seeking to consolidate the votes of the nationalist electorate," the paper says.
Compiled by BBC Monitoring


A scheme widely used by UK stores to identify criminals is testing facial recognition technology, the BBC has learned.

Until now, Facewatch has provided local groups of businesses with a way to share their CCTV images of shoplifters and other potential offenders.
It is now giving shops the ability to generate alerts if a face recognition system matches individuals in the shared pictures to customers in their stores, as the BBC PM programme's Chris Vallance reports.
As we descend the steps into the wine bar he runs, Simon Gordon tells me how he thinks technology can help tackle High Street crime.
As well as running the bar, Simon is the founder of Facewatch, a system that helps businesses locally create and share watch lists - for example, pictures of shoplifters or known bag thieves.
The scheme, which has more than 10,000 premises registered, also helps businesses quickly upload camera footage to the police. The 13th police force has just "come on board", Simon tells me.
At present, spotting a dubious customer on a watch list relies on vigilant staff, but Facewatch, Simon says, is now testing using face-recognition camera systems.
Simon is demonstrating a face-recognition system in an office next to his bar.
The system happily finds the faces of everyone who passes, but a little white box jitters around my face.
"You're invisible," Simon says. I start pondering a crime spree.
We later discover my thick-rimmed glasses are the problem. It's something easily fixed by adjusting the system settings, Simon tells me.
In the past, the system has protected the wine bar from bag thieves. Now the thieves are gone, and it's only loaded with sample images used to demonstrate face-recognition technology.
Simon's ambition is to enable Facewatch to integrate with all the major face-recognition camera systems.
"What you can do now is link your face-recognition system to Facewatch and it will pull down the watch list that's relevant for your premises and your group," he says.
"Then, if someone walks into your premises, it will send you an alert."
Tests are already under way in a small number of shops. Most just use sample images taken from business employees.
"It's live in test sites, but it's not in widespread operation yet," Simon says.
Simon thinks face recognition could help prevent crime before it happens. "I know that sounds a bit like Minority Report but it is possible," he says.
A pre-emptive "Can I help you sir?" may forestall a crime, but Renata Samson, of the privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch, is wary.
"The idea that pre-crime can be stopped is a worry, aren't we all innocent until proven guilty?" she says.
I ask Simon if there is a risk of "blacklisting".
"The people who are on the list are not guilty until they've been prosecuted and taken to court, and the system makes that very clear", Simon says - and under the Data Protection Act "if anyone misuses that data there are very significant fines".
Simon is also sanguine about the risk of misidentification. Images from the watch list will be sent with alerts so staff can check that there's a good match, he says.
It's not just High Street businesses testing face-recognition camera systems.
At the Download music festival in Donington Park, Leicestershire, police used cameras connected to NEC's NeoFace system to scan music fans entering the arena to see if their faces matched a specially created database of criminals known to target festivals.
It sparked controversy and an angry on-stage protest from the band Muse, who accused police of "scanning our faces without telling us".
But Simon Cole, Leicestershire's Chief Constable, says the anger was based on a misunderstanding.
"Afterwards, there was lots of noise that we were storing images of people and we had 75,000 images... it just isn't how it works," he says.
Face-recognition camera systems should be used by police, he tells me.
"The technology's here, and we need to think about what is a proportionate response that respects people's privacy," he says.
Go shopping in Leicester, he says, and you'll be filmed by any number of CCTV cameras.
"If that checks that I'm a reasonably law abiding citizen, that doesn't bother me," he says.
Tony Porter, the surveillance camera commissioner, says a wider debate is needed.
He tells me: "The public need to ask themselves: do they want six million cameras painted red at head height looking at them?
"But good technology that is sited in the right location and is used by the police and agencies effectively is a good thing."
Police forces are already using face-recognition to identify people, much as they might with DNA or fingerprints.
A national police database contains up to 18 million "custody suite" photos - hundreds of thousands could be of innocent people.
The biometrics commissioner Alastair MacGregor has warned that image databases and face recognition could be used to track people's movements by "combining widespread CCTV and access to a huge searchable database of facial images".
Some forces are also learning that skilled humans can outperform computers in analysing pictures.
"Super-recognisers" - humans with a talent for spotting faces - manage "200 idents a week", Det Ch Insp Mick Neville, of the Metropolitan Police, tells me in an email.
But the computer manages just one a week "due to the quality, angle and lighting of CCTV images".
Facewatch's Simon Gordon knows about the work, but says computers will be more useful in live settings; a bar could hardly pay a super-recogniser to sit by the door all day.  And human brains aren't exponentially increasing in power.
Simon says the price of systems is falling as their effectiveness increases, and face-detection cameras could soon be within every business's reach.
"Probably by the end of next year, it will be almost like having a mobile phone," he says.


The Bank of England has written to the UK's biggest financial firms, urging them to plan for "all eventualities" from the UK leaving the European Union.

Bank governor Mark Carney said the "vast majority" of City firms already had contingency plans in place.
However, he said that some financial firms still needed to prepare in case of a "more extreme" outcome.
In a speech, Mr Carney urged the UK and EU to recognise each other's bank rules after Brexit.
Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50 last week, starting two years of formal talks on the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
Goldman Sachs, HSBC and UBS are among the banks that have said they will move some jobs out of London as a result of Brexit.
The UK's central bank wrote to all banks, insurers and other financial firms with branches in the UK which operate in the EU.
It has given the companies three months - to 14 July - to explain what contingency plans they have in place.
In the letter, it says some companies may not be ready for the "most adverse potential outcomes". That would happen if a trade deal and interim arrangements were not in place when the UK leaves.
Mr Carney said: "Prudent planning means that you have to also plan for a shorter time horizon and a more extreme outcome.
"That in no way shape or form is saying that that's what our expectation is, and certainly we'll be absolutely clear that is not in the best interest of the EU 27 or the United Kingdom or the global system as a whole."
Asked if firms should move now, he said: "No, that's not the most prudent. It's prudent to be in a position to continue operating after the UK leaves."
The central bank has indicated it is largely happy with the large foreign banks' planning, but says the standard of contingency planning across the sector is uneven.
Many US and European banks are based in London, offering their services throughout the EU under a process known as "passporting".
In a major speech on the impact of Brexit on the City, Mr Carney urged the UK and EU to strike a deal on UK-based banks offering services into the EU and vice versa.
Mr Carney said the two sides were "ideally positioned" to reach an agreement, because they currently have exactly the same bank regulations.
He also underlined the importance of the City of London to the EU, saying it was "Europe's investment banker" and a "global public good".
The Bank governor said the City of London and other financial centres were at a "fork in the road" going into the Brexit talks.
"The outcome of the Brexit negotiations could prove highly influential in determining which path the global financial system takes," Mr Carney said in a speech at Thomson Reuters in Canary Wharf.
He warned against countries taking the "low road" where they turned inwards, cut back on regulations and did not work with other regulators.
This would lead to fewer jobs, lower growth and higher domestic risks, he said.
In the Brexit talks, the "high road is both readily attainable and highly desirable", he added.
But Mr Carney emphasised that he was not calling for a specific deal on financial services.
He said the industry was just "one sliver - albeit an important sliver" of the wider Brexit negotiations.


In a desperate bid to save one of the world's most endangered animals, conservationists are taking the controversial step of defacing the last survivors.

Ploughshare tortoises are highly prized for their distinctive gold and black shells and fetch exceptionally high prices on the international black market.
Efforts to steal the animals from their native Madagascar are so relentless that there may only be fewer than 500 left.
So the tortoises are now having their shells permanently engraved with a large serial number together with the initials "MG" for Madagascar.
The hope is that deliberately making the animals less attractive will reduce or even eliminate demand for them.
When the idea was first raised, it faced vigorous opposition from many in the conservation movement, the Madagascar government and also staff within the charity involved, the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.
Carving into the ploughshares' shells to disfigure them is the equivalent of removing all horns from rhinos or tusks from elephants to stop those animals from being poached.
Richard Lewis, director of Durrell's operations in Madagascar, told the BBC that "we hate doing it but it's got to be done to help save the species".
"It goes against every grain and gene in our bodies to do this - everything says we shouldn't do this, what we believe in, what we stand for.
"But we think this can be a major step in stopping people wanting these animals. We believe this will be a genuine deterrent."
According to Mr Lewis, campaigners fighting animal trafficking had spoken to several traders who had made clear that there would be no market for tortoises that had been engraved.
The etching is several millimetres deep and only penetrates the shell, rather than the more sensitive bone underneath, and Durrell staff are convinced that while the process may be uncomfortable for the animals, it does not hurt them.
I watched while one tortoise was engraved. It waved its legs to try to move away as an electric drill was applied but it was not in obvious distress.
The task of marking each animal is one of a range of drastic measures designed to thwart the smugglers and head off the extinction of the species.
The charity runs a captive breeding centre in the Ankarafansika National Park to encourage the tortoises to reproduce - and more than 100 young adults have since been released into the wild.
The breeding centre, itself a target for poachers, is now guarded 24 hours a day with electronic surveillance and a team of policemen.
Only in April, two Taiwanese men, posing as tourists, attempted to bribe local staff to gain access. They were later arrested leaving Madagascar with dozens of a less threatened species of tortoise in their luggage.
The only habitat where the ploughshare tortoises live in the wild - a remote and arid stretch of sand, rock and bamboo at Baly Bay in northwest Madagascar - has been turned into a national park to offer protection.
Local people have been hired to patrol the area and to keep watch on the animals, many of which are fitted with radio tags.
But the area is too large to be guarded comprehensively and several times a year, perhaps more often, poachers slip in to steal tortoises.
The youngest of the animals - small enough to fit in the palm of your hand - are the easiest to smuggle. In 2013, officials at Bangkok airport found a suitcase that had arrived on a flight from Madagascar containing 54 young ploughshare tortoises. Wrapped in clingfilm, many of the tiny creatures were dead.
Internet searches have revealed the staggeringly high prices that can be fetched by the animals.
One site listed a ploughshare tortoise over 30 years old with a price tag of $37,900. A young adult that was 10 years old was priced at $14,200 and a baby of 8 months at $1400.
In the aftermath of a coup five years ago, there was a period with little or no control by the authorities and leading smugglers, known on the international scene, were spotted repeatedly entering Madagascar.
Mr Lewis says "they weren't coming here for a holiday" and he concedes that the effort to save the tortoise is an uphill struggle with a highly uncertain outcome.
"I'd be the first to admit at this moment that it's three steps backwards and two forwards with the poaching."
And that constant threat led to the extreme idea of defacing the animals, of wrecking the very beauty that makes them so sought after.
"It was clear that what we were doing was not enough, that animals were still going out.
"So when we first talked to the government and said 'we want to take one of your most prized animals and deface it, every one of them', you can imagine the reaction - 'are you crazy or what?'
"But we got the minister to come here [to the captive breeding centre] and after that he said 'I understand, do it'. "
So far about 70 of the tortoises living in the wild have been engraved - it's thought another 400 or so have yet to be found - along with all those bred in captivity that have reached a suitable age.
But now another potential threat has emerged. The tortoises' natural habitat in the area around Baly Bay turns out to be rich in iron and a Chinese company has plans to open an iron ore mine 30km inland.
The proposal would see a new road running through the national park to connect the mine with a massive new port that would be built on the coast.
Although the precise zones where the tortoises live would not be directly affected, the concern is that such major new developments in the area, attracting thousands of people, would vastly increase the risk of the animals being plundered.
It would also set a precedent if industrial infrastructure is allowed inside the boundaries of a national park - at a time when many precious wildlife habitats are under pressure elsewhere in the country.
One member of the Durrell team, Angelo Ramy Mandibihasina, said he understood the balance of interests facing one of the world's poorest countries where 92% of people are estimated to live on less than $2 a day.
"You can think in two ways - if a road is built, it will bring development which is good for the economy but at the same for the environment that will create some bad things that will affect not only the species but the whole park.
"There might some part of the park that will be open for the road and people will come easily and steal the tortoises or cut wood and get some other animals.
The company involved, Wuhan Iron and Steel, told the BBC that it did not wish to comment.


Landline and broadband customers who suffer poor service could get money back automatically under plans set out by the telecoms regulator, Ofcom.

Under the proposals, they would no longer have to "fight tooth and nail" to get "fair compensation", Ofcom said.
The plan, which is now subject to consultation, could benefit up to 2.6 million customers, the regulator added.
The payments would apply whenever services go wrong and are not fixed quickly enough.
Slow repairs, missed deadlines and engineers' visits that fail to happen as promised would all be covered.
Ofcom said up to £185m could be paid out as a result.
"Customers would be entitled to automatic compensation, without having to go through a potentially lengthy and difficult claims process," the regulator said.
They would receive either a cash payment or a credit on their bill, with the level of payments set by Ofcom.
The proposed scale of charges would be:
"When a customer's landline or broadband goes wrong, that is frustrating enough, without having to fight tooth and nail to get fair compensation from the provider," said Ofcom's consumer group director, Lindsey Fussell.
She said the proposals "would mean customers are properly compensated, while providers will want to work harder to improve their service".
Ofcom said its consultation period on the proposals would last until 5 June. It will then publish its decision "around the end of the year".
In response to the plan, BT, Sky and Virgin Media have issued their own draft proposal for automatic compensation through a voluntary code of practice.
However, Ofcom said: "At this stage, we do not consider that this proposal sufficiently meets our concerns."
Ofcom said that each year, there were 7.2 million instances that would be subject to compensation under its new proposals, but that currently, only 1.1 million of these attracted payments.
In response to the Ofcom proposals, a Virgin Media spokesperson said: "It's important that customers are treated fairly when services can't be delivered, but this is best achieved through a robust industry-led approach.
"The industry is working together on ambitious reforms that would incentivise communications providers to compete to provide customers with a better service, while also setting minimum standards that providers would have to meet."
Another broadband provider, TalkTalk, said: "We welcome measures to make it easier for consumers to be reimbursed when things go wrong.
"In principle, we're broadly supportive of Ofcom's measures, but it's important that any scheme is fair and transparent and based on a set of minimum standards that guarantees every line is capable of providing the broadband customers depend on."
Ofcom's proposals were welcomed by the Minister of State for Digital and Culture, Matt Hancock.
"Too many people are suffering from poor customer service when things go wrong with their broadband and phone lines," he said.
"So getting a better deal for consumers is at the heart of our Digital Economy Bill, which strengthens Ofcom's power to make sure providers pay compensation when service falls short.
"These changes will help make sure people are not cut off from friends, family and work for days on end, and are properly compensated if problems aren't fixed quickly enough."
Alex Neill, of consumer group Which?, said: "Broadband has become a modern day essential, so it is only right that consumers should get compensation when their provider fails to deliver.
"Ofcom now needs to swiftly push ahead with these proposals and ensure that this and other measures help to significantly improve the service that broadband customers receive," he said.


Brazilian football star Bruno Fernandes has gone on trial, accused of ordering the killing of a former lover whose body has never been found.

Fernandes and two other defendants are charged with the murder of Eliza Samudio, who disappeared in June 2010. Police say she was murdered and her body was fed to dogs.
The three all deny any wrongdoing.
At the time, Fernandes was the goalkeeper for Brazil's most popular club, Flamengo.
Ms Samudio had said that the married footballer was the father of her baby.
The trial in the town of Contagem, in the state of Minas Gerais, began on Monday morning and is expected to last two weeks.
It is attracting massive media interest in Brazil where it has been compared to the OJ Simpson trial in the US.
As well as Fernandes, two others are charged with murder: Luiz Henrique Ferreira Romao, known as Macarrao, and former policeman Marcos Aparecido dos Santos, known as Bola.
Two other defendants, Fernandes's ex-wife Dayanne Rodrigues and an ex-lover, Fernanda Gomes de Castro,  face charges of abduction and false imprisonment.
Other accused people are set to face trial separately.
The prosecution case is that Eliza Samudio was lured to a hotel in Rio de Janeiro on the pretext of obtaining a DNA test to prove the footballer was the father of her child.
She and her baby son were then abducted and taken to the footballer's home in Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais.
There, it is alleged, she was held captive. According to police reports, she was then strangled, her body cut up and parts were fed to dogs.
The baby was found a fortnight later in the home of friends of Dayanne Rodrigues.
Prosecutors say Fernandes did not want to accept the child as his and have to pay maintenance.
All the defendants have denied the accusations.
Fernandes was jailed for four-and-a-half years in December 2010 after being found guilty in a separate trial of abducting and assaulting Ms Samudio the previous year.
Fernandes had been Flamengo's goalkeeper since 2006 and was hugely popular with fans.


Worcestershire Rapids kept alive their hopes of qualifying from the T20 Blast North Group with a thrilling five-run win over local rivals Birmingham Bears at Edgbaston.

Opener John Hastings hit a fifty off just 19 balls to help the Rapids to 190-7.
Dom Sibley made 49 on his Bears debut, but New Zealand spinner Mitchell Santner took 3-16 to restrict the hosts to 185-7.
Worcestershire are now five points off a top-four place with five matches remaining, while the defeat ends a four-game winning run for the second-placed Bears.
Elsewhere in the North Group, table-toppers Derbyshire lost by eight runs to East Midlands neighbours Nottinghamshire Outlaws and Durham defended 157 to beat Yorkshire by one run.
In an evening of tight finishes, Lancashire also maintained their chances of going through to the knockout stages with a four-run victory at Leicestershire.
In the South Group, Glamorgan stayed at the top with an impressive six-run win against Surrey at The Oval and Chris Nash's unbeaten 73 took Sussex to a five-wicket victory against Kent.
Essex Eagles are still bottom despite overcoming Hampshire at Southampton, while Gloucestershire earned a seven-wicket win against Somerset.
In front of a raucous crowd in Birmingham, Hastings and fellow opener Joe Clarke (34) were dominant in the first six overs, clearing the ropes eight times.
The Powerplay included five sixes in a row off Colin de Grandhomme and Boyd Rankin as they raced to 83-1 - New Zealand all-rounder De Grandhomme receiving particularly heavy punishment going for 30 off his only over.
Hastings eventually lost his wicket one ball after reaching fifty, swiping Jeetan Patel to Aaron Thomason in the deep, and Worcestershire stumbled in the rest of their innings to 190.
Sibley, who moved from Surrey to Edgbaston on Thursday, set a fine platform for the Bears' response, but once he was out to a superb diving catch by Santner, the required run-rate climbed and the hosts fell short.
Bristol is just 45 miles from Taunton, which normally means hopping on the coach and perhaps allowing an hour and a half for Friday traffic.
However, an accident on the M5 motorway saw Somerset's trip to Gloucestershire's Brightside Ground take more than four hours - delaying the start by 45 minutes.
If the players thought things could not get any worse, the visitors slumped to 96-8 before Craig Overton's unbeaten 33 helped them make 146 all out.
Ian Cockbain's 47 not out then took the hosts home with 10 balls to spare to leave them second in the South Group.
At least the Somerset team had a bit of fun in the tailbacks...
It was an indifferent evening for England players past and present, with former limited-overs captain Paul Collingwood continuing his fine form for Durham.
The 41-year-old struck an unbeaten 88 off 54 balls, just five days after hitting his maiden T20 century.
All-rounder David Willey enjoyed a decent evening with both bat and ball, taking 2-23 and then making 40, but could not save Yorkshire from defeat at Chester-le-Street.
Surrey and England opener Jason Roy's difficult campaign continued - the 27-year-old was out first ball to Lukas Carey in their defeat by Glamorgan. He has just one fifty in seven T20 Blast innings this year.
Roy's opening partner for the national side, Alex Hales, was out for just seven for Notts, while Sam Billings hit five sixes in his 74 for Kent.
Limited-overs wicketkeeper Jos Buttler made his third half-century in the tournament with 57 in Lancashire's tight victory at Leicestershire. The former Somerset man is now averaging more than 45 in domestic T20 cricket this summer.
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Clare Hollingworth, the British journalist who reported the beginning of World War II, is celebrating her 100th birthday in Hong Kong.

Mrs Hollingworth happened to be making a trip across the border from Poland to Germany in August 1939, when she saw large numbers of military vehicles by the side of the road.
This was ahead of the German invasion.
While scoops do not get much bigger, it was the start of an illustrious career involving many other stories.
In the Daily Telegraph on 29 August 1939, Hollingworth reported: "Today, I crossed the frontier between Polish and German Upper Silesia and spent several hours in Beuthen, Hindenburg and Gleiwitz.
"The frontier is still closed to local traffic. Everywhere I saw signs of the most intense military activity. In the two miles between Hindenburg and Gleiwitz I was passed by 65 military despatch riders on motorcycles. The only cars to be seen were those belonging to the military."
Mrs Hollingworth was born on the same day that Sun Yat-Sen and other revolutionaries overthrew the Qing dynasty in China.
It seems fitting that a woman who would go on to report on many world events should have been born on such a newsworthy day.
She knew both British intelligence officers and spies Donald McLean and Kim Philby when they defected to Russia.
She travelled extensively reporting on Aden, the Vietnam war and Algeria.
She interviewed the shah of Iran, and reported from Beijing during the demise of Chairman Mao Zedong among many other stories.
Asked why it was important to her to be a reporter, she replied: "Because I just enjoyed it, nothing else."
She still loves life, she said, and listened to the BBC World Service on the hour.


Edin Dzeko hit a hat-trick for Roma - and became the leading scorer in this season's Europa League - in a 4-0 last-32 first-leg win at Villarreal.

The former Manchester City striker, 30, scored three in the last 25 minutes to take his European total to eight goals.
It put him one clear of Athletic Bilbao's 36-year-old striker Aritz Aduriz, who was on target in a 3-2 first-leg home win over Apoel Nicosia.
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, another veteran at 33, scored as Schalke won 3-0 at PAOK.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a hat-trick for Manchester United as they beat Saint-Etienne 3-0, but Tottenham fell to a surprise 1-0 defeat at Belgian mid-table side Gent.
There was controversy in Poland, where Ajax appeared to be denied a legitimate goal in a 0-0 draw at Legia Warsaw.
Arkadiusz Malarz, the Legia keeper, seemed to pull back Ajax captain Davy Klaassen's eighth-minute shot from behind the line, but none of the officials saw it go in - and there is no goalline technology in the Europa League.
A gloomy fortnight for Celta Vigo continued as they lost 1-0 at home to Shakhtar Donetsk, with Gustavo Blanco scoring the only goal.
The La Liga side had to postpone a home game against Real Madrid just under two weeks ago after their stadium suffered storm damage. They then lost a Copa del Rey semi-final to Alaves before conceding two goals in the last four minutes to fall to a 3-2 league defeat at Atletico Madrid last Sunday.


A serving Royal Marine from Northern Ireland accused of terrorism, fraud and drugs offences has denied some of the charges against him.

Ciaran Maxwell is charged with making explosives and storing them in hides in England and Northern Ireland.
In a brief appearance at Westminster Magistrates' Court, he was not asked to enter a plea on the terror charge linked to dissident republicanism.
He pleaded not guilty to bank card fraud and intent to supply cannabis.
Mr Maxwell - who is originally from Larne, County Antrim, but now lives in England - will next appear on all three charges at London's Central Criminal Court on 19 September.
Ciarán Maxwell: Full list of charges
The 30-year-old was arrested in Somerset on 24 August following searches in Larne, County Antrim, and Devon.
His arrest was understood to be connected to two arms dumps found in County Antrim this year.
The charges include obtaining articles for use in terrorism - specifically chemicals and components to make bombs - and having an image of an adapted police pass card.
Mr Maxwell is accused of carrying out research resulting in "the creation of a library of documents" likely to be of use to terrorists.
The offences are alleged to have taken place between 1 January 2011 and the day of his arrest.
A separate charge says that on the day of his arrest, Mr Maxwell had a quantity of cannabis in his possession with intent to supply.
He has also been charged with fraud and is accused of having images of bank cards and associated CVC numbers for use in connection with fraud.
His arrest came after a long-running investigation involving the Security Service (MI5), the PSNI, South West Counter-Terrorism Unit and Scotland Yard's Counter-Terrorism Unit.
He was questioned on suspicion of being involved in the preparation for acts of terrorism under Section Five of the Terrorism Act.


Steelworkers from all over the country have demonstrated in Sheffield over cuts to Britain's ailing steel industry.

Thousands of job cuts have recently been announced in Teesside, Scunthorpe and Lanarkshire, with unions fearing more to come.
The TUC-organised rally urged the government to stem the influx of cheap steel from China.
Business Minister Anna Soubry said her department was doing all it could.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "The crisis in British steel isn't over. One in six steelworkers face losing their jobs.
"Britain desperately needs a long-term industrial plan, but ministers have refused to commit to one.
"The closure of factories will devastate surrounding communities, and cause jobs losses throughout the supply chain. The chancellor's 'Northern Powerhouse' has to be more than a slogan for a party conference."
The banners on the streets of Sheffield told the story as the march snaked through busy streets towards the city hall.
Angry steelworkers and their families have come from as far afield as Scotland, Wales, Teeside and Scunthorpe to add their voices to those from South Yorkshire.
They feel the government is standing aside as their their once mighty industry rapidly heads towards meltdown.
They blame Chinese dumping of steel on European markets for plummeting prices and high energy costs for making the UK industry uncompetitive.
The result has been the heartbreak hitting thousands of families as the consequent economic squeeze has led to the forced loss of plants and jobs in recent weeks.
And unions warn there is more to come unless action is taken now.
The Save Our Steel march was in part a protest over last month's announcement by Tata Steel that it is cutting 1,200 jobs at plants in Scunthorpe, Motherwell and Cambuslang.
Sarah Champion, MP for Rotherham, said the demonstration was a warning to ministers to help save the steel industry.
"Today's rally in Sheffield brought together steel workers, Labour MPs and unions from across the UK to try and make the government understand that unless it acts now, British steel has no future.
"We're not asking for a bailout, just a level playing field for British steel to compete on."
Rob Middlemiss, chairman of the Multi Union Tata Steel at Skinningrove in North Yorkshire, took part in the rally and said the scale of job losses would be devastating for communities.
"For every steelworker that loses their job, two or three more people lose it in the supply chain," he said.
"If there's 30,000 people left in steel, we're talking 100,000 affected, so the economy is those areas is going to be decimated."
Ms Soubry said the government was "working tirelessly" to help.
"It was the UK that helped persuade the European Commission to launch an investigation into steel rebar imports and the UK that secured an emergency EU council meeting this month," she said.
"We will continue to do all we can to achieve a level playing field for our steel industry and workers."


UKIP's governing body is "defying" Welsh leader Nathan Gill by refusing to approve the party's assembly election candidate selections, a senior source has said.

The National Executive Committee (NEC) met on Friday for the second time in two weeks and discussed the matter.
Its role is to sign off a list of assembly election candidates put forward by the party in Wales.
But BBC Wales understands it failed again to approve the list.
The party's source told BBC Wales: "The NEC - on which [former Conservative MP] Neil Hamilton sits - has become factionalised and is opposing the selections put forward by the party in Wales and supported by Nigel Farage.
"There are people on the NEC defying the leader in Wales.
"It's a real stalemate between the Welsh leadership, who Nigel supports, and the NEC."
Some Welsh members have warned that selecting candidates from outside Wales - including Mr Hamilton - would be damaging.
On Friday, UKIP councillor Kevin Mahoney said he would quit the party if Mr Hamilton, Mark Reckless and Alexandra Phillips were selected.
Based on its recent electoral performance in Wales, the party stands a good chance of getting several regional AMs elected in May.
Mr Hamilton did not want to comment.
A spokesman for UKIP Wales said: "There is so much vested interest in the process as it could be UKIP's first major breakthrough into a domestic parliament and the party and its members want to be sure that the best candidates are selected for the job."


Police say the arrests of two men following the seizure of drugs from a car in Belfast have dealt a blow to organised crime.

The car was stopped in Duncrue Street in Belfast on Wednesday evening at 20.15 GMT.
Police seized suspected herbal cannabis and cocaine thought to be worth a substantial amount.
The men, aged 28 and 31, have both been arrested for possession and supply-of-drug offences.
Det Insp Tom McClure from the PSNI's Reactive and Organised Crime Branch said: "I believe that this intervention has struck a blow to the activities of an organised gang involved in serious drug criminality."


The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland has told a Palm Sunday service for families of the Disappeared that there is still hope that information will help them find their loved ones.

The Archbishop of Armagh, Eamon Martin, spoke during a special service at St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh.
Families of the Disappeared said they welcomed his comments.
The Disappeared are victims murdered and secretly buried by republicans during the Northern Ireland conflict.
Over the past 16 years, the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) has searched for 16 people who were officially listed as "disappeared".
The remains of 12 of the victims have been recovered and formally identified to date.
Four people have not yet been found - Joe Lynskey, Columba McVeigh, Robert Nairac and Seamus Ruddy.
Archbishop Martin told the congregation there was still so much to be done to uncover the truth of what happened to many victims during the Troubles, and he called for a "truth-recovery mechanism" to allow people to come forward with information.
"Even in the absence of a formal mechanism, I am confident that there are trustworthy people in society and in the churches who would be willing, and could be powered and enabled, to accept and sensitively share information in this regard," he said.
Speaking after the service, he added: "One of the difficulties of the terrible things that happened in the past is that they don't just disappear with death.
"They are handed on to children and to grandchildren and those hurts, those deep wounds and traumas, fester and continue and block progress and lasting peace and justice.
"We're talking about people on all sides, people who pulled the trigger, who planted a bomb.
"Other people who maybe kept watch, who colluded. People who intimidated. And I actually think that they too will find peace if they are able to unburden themselves of some of the things that they did.
"I believe there are people who would be very willing to become involved in an information retrieval process that would allow the grief of families to be quelled, which would allow people to move on there are many people among those in the church and others in society."
The comments were welcomed by the brother of Columba McVeigh, one of those who has not yet been found.
"Information is the key to recovering these bodies, there's still four left so we need some information to get the commission back digging," said Oliver McVeigh.
There were still people in the North Monaghan area who he believed had not yet come forward with information, added Mr McVeigh.
"The basic human right is for a burial of those who die. And we saw a number of weeks ago in Derry (at Martin McGuinness' funeral) the importance republicans place on death, committal and burial," he said.
"So we're asking the same. We just want to get my brother as the other families want to get their relatives as well, to be able to bury them in a grave and go and visit that grave like everyone else does."
Philomena McKee, whose brother Kevin McKee was located in 2015, said the annual service was a source of support for the families.
"With the Disappeared's families, it's like one big family now. Everybody knows what everybody's going through. And even though my brother's  been found, I still know what these people are going through."


Every top team looks to make a statement at the start of the season, and the one Manchester United put out with Sunday's 4-0 win over West Ham was pretty emphatic.

That was the quickest I have seen United move the ball around for a long time and there was so much energy, pace and desire in their team, particularly in the final third.
United were so sharp going forward, with exactly the kind of attacking play I was expecting and that led me to tip them to win the Premier League title last week.
Jose Mourinho's side did not have much defending to do, because West Ham offered such little resistance - but part of the reason the Hammers were poor was because United made them look it.
Last season, United's problem was failing to finish off the opposition in games like this, particularly at home, when they often dominated but did not get the win.
Drawing at Old Trafford was their Achilles heel but, once they went 1-0 up on Sunday, it was only a matter of how many goals they were going to get.
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Nemanja Matic fully deserved his man-of-the-match award because he bossed the game from start to finish on his Old Trafford debut for his new side.
He was the outstanding player out there. Nobody else was going to take the glory but him, and he was brilliant.
It was the kind of complete midfield display that his former side Chelsea were badly missing in their defeat by Burnley on Saturday - someone who was able to stamp their authority on the game.
Matic was aggressive when he had to be, and put in the tackles, but his distribution was also top class. He kept it simple when he had to, but played more ambitious passes when the time was right.
Matic was forward thinking too, something he was not known for at Chelsea, and showed it with his part in United's first goal.
He won the ball back then bombed forward to provide an overlap for Marcus Rashford on the left when he played Lukaku in down the middle to score.
I also saw Matic beat three or four men down the right wing in the first half, which is not something he did too much of in his time at Stamford Bridge.
But on top of that, he influenced the players around him too. He definitely brought more out of Pogba, which was one of the reasons I assumed Mourinho wanted him so much.
You could see his presence freed Pogba up a little bit to go forward more and, although that is always a lot easier when you are two or three goals up in a game, they linked up well even before that too.
How that partnership progresses as the season goes on is definitely something to keep an eye on, because it could be a key one for United.
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United's biggest summer signing was not far behind in the man-of-the-match stakes - Lukaku's display was everything you could ask for from a centre-forward.
Whether it was his strength, his link-up play or his finishing, he was just unplayable.
His performance was exactly what I expected of him in this United side.
He was aggressive and good in the air, and his movement in coming short or making runs behind the Hammers defence meant he was constantly asking different questions of the West Ham back line. They simply could not handle him.
The most important thing though, was he got two goals, and not just because they helped his side to such a convincing win but because it got him off the mark at the first attempt.
Whoever you are playing for as a centre-forward, if you are playing for a non-league side or, like Lukaku, you have just joined one of the biggest clubs in the world for £75m, you are absolutely desperate to get off to a good start in your first game for your new team.
I was the same after I had joined Blackburn for a British record fee ahead of the first Premier League season in 1992, and scored two goals on my debut against Crystal Palace.
It gave me great confidence and Lukaku will be the same. He will now believe he belongs on that stage.
I am sure Lukaku would have been nervous before the game, but all that will have settled down with his first goal. He is off and running now and he will guarantee United 20 to 25 goals this season if he stays injury free.
Mourinho said in his programme notes before the game that, during his managerial career, he has never worked with a group of players he likes as much as this United side. They showed exactly why that is the case.
He is optimistic, as he should be, because he has got what he wanted in the transfer window and might still get one or two more players before it shuts.
You can see there is an air of confidence about Mourinho and his players, and like Manchester City they seem better equipped than anyone else to mount a serious challenge.
I picked Manchester United to be champions before the season started and I have not seen anything on the opening weekend to change my opinion that the title race is between the Manchester clubs.
Alan Shearer was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.


Tributes have been paid to former Mactaggart & Mickel chairman Derek Mickel, who has died while on holiday in the Canary Islands.

It is understood Mr Mickel, 79, drowned while swimming at Fuerteventura on Saturday.
Mr Mickel served as chairman of the Glasgow-based housebuilder for eight years up until 2012.
His son Andrew, a fourth-generation family member, is group director of the company.
A spokesman for Mactaggart & Mickel and the Mickel family said it was "with great sadness" that his death had been confirmed.
He added: "Mr Mickel was a prominent Scottish businessman, having joined the housebuilder as a third-generation family member in 1961, becoming a director in 1966 and serving as chairman of Mactaggart & Mickel for eight years up to 2012. He continued to be a director of the business.
"There will most likely be a post-mortem given the sudden nature of his death, therefore no further details are available at this time.
"The family would request for a period of privacy and respect to be observed at this time."


British eventer William Fox-Pitt is set to return to competition in April, six months after suffering a head trauma in a serious accident.

Fox-Pitt, 47, has entered the Burnham Market trials with four horses.
"It is all systems go here and everything is on target," he said. "I hope to be competing soon."
The three-time Olympic medallist was placed in an induced coma after falling at the World Young Horse Championships in Lion-D'Angers on 17 October.
Fox-Pitt revealed in December he had started riding again.
Among the horses he hopes to make his comeback on at Burnham Market - which takes place from 1-3 April - is 2015 Badminton winner Chilli Morning.
Fox-Pitt is Britain's most successful rider, with 20 major championship medals.
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A consultation on tackling congestion on the A494 and A55 in Deeside costing over £200m will take place in March.

Economy Secretary Ken Skates said it would be the largest investment since the roads were built.
He also said extra resources will be spent tackling pinch-points along the A55 in north Wales.
Mr Skates outlined his plans for transport investment over the next five years in a speech at Cardiff Airport.
He said a delayed public inquiry into a new £1.1bn six-lane M4 relief road south of Newport will begin on 28 February.
In north Wales, Mr Skates highlighted congestion problems at the Black Cat roundabout off the A55 at Llandudno Junction, Conwy county.
He also said money would be invested on reducing congestion on the A483 near Wrexham.
"Between those two key arteries (A483 and A55) we are going to be better connecting north Wales with the Midlands and the North West, ensuring that cross border economy continues to grow," he said.
Plans for road improvements on the A494/A55 in Deeside were first mooted in 2006.
Homes were demolished to make way for a controversial seven-lane highway on the A55 and A494 at Aston Hill in Flintshire, before ministers threw those plans out.
In 2015, it was announced that two routes were being assessed with one focusing on the A55/A494 from the River Dee bridge to Northop.
The second looked at highway and transport improvements using the existing A458 Flintshire Bridge.


Pop records set a bad example by portraying ageing and old people in a negative light, focusing on dying and physical decline, according to a study in a nursing journal.

UK researchers trawled the musical archives from the 1930s to the present day for any tracks mentioning old age.
The majority - 55 out of 76 songs - focused on "bad" aspects of ageing.
The Beatles and Elton John feature on the "negative list", along with Pulp and The Who.
Meanwhile, Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Dusty Springfield were commended by the researchers for penning positive lyrics in their respective songs Forever Young, Borrowed Time and Goin' Back.
Lead researcher Jacinta Kelly, senior lecturer in nursing at Anglia Ruskin University whose work is published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, says popular music is a powerful tool that can influence behaviour and attitudes, and it should be used responsibly.
"For example, The Beatles' When I'm Sixty Four, is generally thought of as an upbeat tune that is quite light-hearted.
"But the lyrics 'when I get older, losing my hair, many years from now, will you still be sending me a valentine, birthday greeting, bottle of wine' are actually questioning whether someone who is old is still loveable, and that's concerning."
Likewise, The Who's My Generation song has lyrics saying "I hope I die before I get old", while Pulp's Help The Aged track asks the listener to give the aged hope and comfort "cos they're running out of time".
But Dusty Springfield sings that "growing old is no sin" and John Lennon's song declares "now I am older, ah hah, the future is brighter".
The researchers scanned the Music Lyric Database, Songfacts, The Macronium and Absolute lyrics for English language music texts relating to age and ageing.
Then they categorised the songs they found as either "contented and celebrated aged", "pitiful and petulant pensioners" or "frail and flagging old folks".
Ms Kelly said: "The message coming out of the negative songs is that the elderly are frail and a burden. It's confidence-lowering.
"Music is very pervasive and the message could penetrate.
"While it may prove an impossible task, as well as an infringement on the freedom of expression, to censor negative portrayals of old age, it is important that awareness is raised and some efforts are made to reduce these negative stereotypes."


Mountain rescue volunteers and a coastguard helicopter were called out on Monday after a man collapsed on a footpath in Snowdonia.

He became unwell at Llyn Idwal and injured his face in a fall.
He was treated at the scene, placed on a stretcher and carried to the helicopter which had landed close by on Cwm Idwal.
Ogwen Valley rescue team members also attended the incident.


Work to protect the only remaining intact medieval pottery kiln in Britain has been awarded £170,500.

Newport Memorial Hall, in Pembrokeshire, was given the money by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Their project includes plans to create a visitor attraction which is expected to open in the summer.
Project manager Siobhan Ashe said she hoped the "fascinating and rare communal artefact" would provide greater understanding of our heritage.


A child and a 31-year-old woman are in a critical condition in hospital following an eight-vehicle crash.

A lorry and seven cars were involved in the accident on the A34 at Hinksey Hill, Oxford, at about 19:30 BST on 25 August.
The woman and child, who were taken to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, were travelling northbound in one of the cars.
Police said they are in a "critical but stable" condition.
The northbound carriageway was closed for almost 10 hours while emergency services attended the scene.
A 58-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.


The publication 50 years ago of an explosive report on the future of Britain's railways was a watershed moment for a country which could proudly lay claim to the world's oldest rail network.

Drily entitled The Reshaping of British Railways, the document would soon be better known as the Beeching Report after its author, Dr Richard Beeching - the chairman of British Railways.
In 1963, Britain's railways were running at a loss of Â£140m a year. And Dr Beeching had made it his job to "make the railways pay".
With just half of the network's 7,000 stations carrying 98% of the traffic, the doctor came to a shocking conclusion: the withdrawal of more than 2,000 stations and 250 train services.
Few places would escape the effects of the "Beeching axe" and, 50 years on from the report's publication, those effects can still be seen, not least in Ripon, a small city on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.
On the outskirts of the city, famous regionally for its 1,300-year-old cathedral, Station Drive looks much like any other suburb. But among the identikit houses one building stands out as being of unmistakeably grander design - a relic of a bygone era.
Half a century ago it was Ripon railway station - a link between the cathedral city and the outside world. But after Beeching's axe fell passenger services stopped in 1967, and freight followed in 1969. Today, the station has been transformed into luxury flats.
Back in 1963, Dr Beeching had promised: "In all our planning, we haven't forgotten that railways are there to serve people. We haven't forgotten the human side."
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In 2013, Mick Stanley would beg to differ. As newly-elected Mayor of Ripon and a member of Ripon Chamber of Trade, he passionately believes the station's closure was a massive mistake.
"It was nonsensical and we can still feel its effects 50 years on. It never really made much sense and I can understand that the anger is still there about Ripon losing its link," said Mr Stanley.
"Getting rid of the railways was one of the acts of vandalism of the 1960s. If we still had a station, we would be getting more people in to Ripon, I don't think there's any doubt about that at all."
It is a different story just 30 miles away in Ilkley, West Yorkshire - a town famous for its moors and its spa waters which were enthusiastically consumed by sickly Victorians.
Although Ilkley station was earmarked for closure by Dr Beeching, in 2013 it remains a thriving rail terminus - though, in a nod to the 21st century, much of the old station building is now taken up by shops and a pizza restaurant.
Ilkley's station and rail link were saved after successful lobbying by the Ilkley Rail Defence Association, predecessor to what is now Wharfedale Rail Users' Group (WRUG).
Peter Johnson, WRUG secretary and himself a former railwayman, said losing the station would have imposed a "dead hand" on the town.
"The people who were already here would have stayed, but you wouldn't have got the same number of newcomers coming in. It would, perhaps, have become a town of genteel old ladies taking tea in Betty's Tea Rooms," he said.
"What the railway has enabled Ilkley to do is to help it keep up to date with changing public demands and provided a good place to bring up families with good travel connections and a good place for people to visit."
In Ripon, Mr Stanley said that while about 300,000 people visit each year, not to mention other nearby attractions such as Fountains Abbey, the loss of the city's station in 1967 meant it had failed to fulfil its potential as a tourist hotspot.
Richard Taylor, chairman of Ripon Museums Trust, said the lack of a rail link to the city often sparked disbelief among potential visitors.
"It does put people off. If we invite people here for a conference or something they ask, 'When is the train to Ripon?' We have to say that the last train from here was in 1967.
"People can't believe that a place like this doesn't have a station."
That disbelief is shared by shoppers braced against the wind in Ripon's picturesque market square.
Ripon resident Carol Harrison said people remained "very cross" about the lack of a station.
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Was there an alternative to the Beeching axe? Probably not. British Railways relied on government funding and the deficit it was incurring was becoming politically unacceptable.
Add in the Conservative government's enthusiasm for road and motorway building, it is hard to see what else could have been done.
Unlike now, raising fares to pay for investment was politically unacceptable because it would have effectively been the government doing this.
The network had been pruned from the end of the First World War, but this was fairly piecemeal and obviously not enough to make the savings the nationalised industry required.
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"We can't get anywhere. There's no link to the north, to Harrogate, to York. We feel very cut off - it's like an island," she said.
And Estelle Fulford, also from Ripon, said: "It's disappointing that we don't have a station. There is a frequent bus service... but it does affect people's lives. It's a bit of a faff."
The contrast between Ripon and Ilkley post-Beeching could not be clearer. In fact, as Mr Johnson pointed out, the town's rail link to Leeds had proved so popular that not only was it electrified in the 1990s, but extra trains were also recently introduced to cope with demand.
In the booking hall at Ilkley station, young mother Ruth Kitcher, with lively three-year-old Evangeline and nine-month-old Phoenix in tow, supported Mr Johnson's view of the station's positive contribution to Ilkley life.
"The station's really important. It's great to be able to take the kids to town. It's far easier than driving and we're always taking them out on trips as they get bigger. We go to Leeds, up to the Railway Museum in York and on seaside trips as well," she said.
"It's really quite crucial. I would never choose to live in a place that didn't have a station, purely for reasons of convenience."
And had Ilkley fallen foul of the Beeching axe in 1963, pensioner David Smithson, from Ryhill near Wakefield, said the lack of a station in the spa town would affect his lifestyle today.
"It would have made access to the Dales for me very difficult as it shortens the journey to the Dales. I'd prefer trains any day of the week. I guess it would have affected a great many people if the station had closed," he said.
Whether Beeching is seen as a hero or a villain - or something in-between - is coloured by the experience of individual towns or cities.
While it is easy to blame Beeching for the impact of his infamous axe, even former railwaymen like Mr Johnson admit "large number of closures were necessary".
But for people in the city the effects of the Beeching Report certainly live on.
Norman Robinson, a visitor from nearby Harrogate, put it bluntly: "If there was a railway station it's highly likely we'd use it, what with the bloody traffic the way it is.
"On some days it's horrendous - just come here on Thursdays for market day and take a look."
And even for those towns and cities which enjoy a rail service post-Beeching, there is still plenty of reason for rail users to be unhappy, according to campaign group TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA).
Robert Oxley, TPA campaign manager, said: "Beeching may have intended to make the railways much more efficient, but he would not have many reasons to be cheerful if he were alive today.
"Taxpayers are still having to foot bills worth billions every year in subsidies, with the current system of franchising offering very poor value for money."
While the "bad old days" of a state-owned railway were over, Network Rail remained "a highly inefficient quango", added Mr Oxley.
"There is room for far more competition which would deliver better service and better value for taxpayers."


Guernsey FC striker Ross Allen says he is "not optimistic" about playing in the Muratti final in May after returning from travelling abroad.

The 30-year-old is his club's record scorer with 224 goals in 203 games, but has not played since early November.
"I feel fit, but there's a match fitness and an aerobic fitness that will take time to get back," he said.
"It was so good to get away - this Guernsey FC project has been very intense for five or six years."
Allen resumed training with the Isthmian League Division One South side this week and he is likely to be named on the bench for the trip to Chatham Town on Saturday.
The Green Lions are only one place above the relegation zone, but have a seven-point buffer with seven games of the season remaining.
"I've got no right to earn a place at all in the next few weeks because these boys have been here doing it all season and a lot of them are in a lot better shape than me," Allen told to BBC Radio Guernsey.
"The Muratti - hopefully I can work hard and be in with a shout, but I'm not too optimistic about that.
"It's more the Island Games for me - I think I've got time to get ready for that and that's a big goal, a big incentive, a bonus at the end of the season."


Comic and 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan has settled his legal case against Walmart over a crash which left him seriously injured, and killed his friend.

A Walmart truck crashed in to the back of Morgan's limo in June 2014, with prosecutors alleging the driver had not slept for more than 24 hours.
Comedian James McNair, known as Jimmy Mack, was killed in the crash.
Morgan's lawyer, Benedict Morelli, said Walmart "took full responsibility for the accident".
All sides had worked hard to reach the undisclosed agreement, he added.
Morgan said Walmart "did right by me and my family, and for my associates and their families".
"I am grateful that the case was resolved amicably.''
A representative for supermarket giant Walmart also called it an "amicable settlement".
Morgan, 46,  was left in a critical condition following the crash, suffering a traumatic head injury, a broken leg, nose and ribs.
In March, his lawyer said the star had not yet been able to get back to work but was "working very hard to get better, physically, emotionally and mentally."
The comedian, who rose to fame on Saturday Night Live, will give his first interview since the crash to NBC's Today on Monday, 1 June.
Morgan will be interviewed by Matt Lauer live in the Rockefeller Center - which was the setting for 30 Rock - and will be joined by his lawyer Benedict Morelli.
Walmart had previously reached an agreement with the family of James McNair, 62, who grew up with Morgan in New York.
Their driver, Kevin Roper of Jonesboro, Georgia, has pleaded not guilty to death by auto and assault and is currently on bail.


A Croydon tram driver has been suspended as part of an inquiry into video footage that appears to show a driver falling asleep at the controls.

The clip, captured on a passenger's mobile phone on Wednesday, was sent to the Evening Standard newspaper.
The video was recorded three stops from the site of the 9 November derailment in Croydon that left seven people dead and 51 injured.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was "absolutely furious" about the footage.
In the 20-second clip, a driver - who is not the one involved in last year's fatal crash - appears to be sleeping while the tram is waiting at lights.
When the lights changed, he failed to move off.
A commuter told the Evening Standard the driver was asleep for several minutes and people resorted to banging on the window to wake him up.
He is seen bent over and breathing heavily with his hands still on the controls.
Mr Khan said he was sure Londoners would be "as shocked as he was" about the incident, and called for an immediate investigation.
"I have spoken to the chief executive of First Group, who operate the trams, to make my feelings crystal clear.
"This comes just six months after the tragic incident in Croydon which left seven people dead and more than 50 injured.
"Bereaved families and survivors will be appalled by this video."
A Transport for London spokesman said it had asked operators First Group to take all necessary action to ensure they are dealing with driver tiredness.
First Group said in a statement: "We have commenced a full investigation into this incident and will take all appropriate action.
"The driver in question has been suspended from duty pending the outcome of this investigation."
Following the 2016 derailment, four drivers told the BBC that they had fallen asleep while operating trams in Croydon.
An interim crash report found the crashed tram had been travelling at 43.5mph in a 12mph zone and found no evidence of any track defects or obstructions.
The driver was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and is currently on bail.


Spectacular video has been captured by conservators working at the top of Britain's tallest spire.

Two men filmed themselves climbing 404ft (123m) to the capstone of Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire to replace a faulty weather meter.
The footage shows the breathtaking views only usually experienced by the Cathedral's peregrine falcons.
Clerk of Works Gary Price described it as a "heart in your mouth" experience which heightens the senses.
"When you climb out of the weather door it's quite wide, but the higher you go the more narrow it gets - and that is when you question if it'll take your weight, but it will," he said.
"It's quite exposed because you can see all the way around you.
"If there's two or three of you up there, and one of you moves, you can feel the spire slightly swaying. Not a massive amount but enough to notice that it is moving with the wind."
Mr Price was joined in the work by two architectural conservators and rope access specialists.
To access the top they climbed 332 steps through the cathedral's roof spaces, then a further 144ft (44m) up ladders inside the spire before climbing out of a weather door and scaling the final 49ft (15m) outside using metal hoops in the spire's masonry.
The purpose of the work was to replace a faulty anemometer, which was working intermittently, and also plug a leak discovered after the September storms.


Brechin City have appointed Darren Dods as their new manager.

Former Dundee United defender Dods, 40, replaces Ray McKinnon, who moved to Raith Rovers last month.
Scottish League One Brechin is Dods' first managerial charge, having played with Forfar Athletic over the past two seasons.
"I have experienced what Brechin City has to offer in our battles over the past two seasons," he told Brechin's website.
"I greatly look forward to meeting and working with the players who have already demonstrated their commitment to the club as we look to build a squad for the new season.
"I am clear on our objectives as we look to be challenging amongst the best of the part-time teams in Scotland. I thank the club for showing faith in me as a young manager and I look to repay that faith through hard work and endeavour."
Chairman Ken Ferguson added: "There is much work to be done in building a squad for the new season, however we have good players already signed up and we are confident Darren has the contacts in the game to create a team capable of competing in this highly competitive league."
Last season, Brechin qualified for the Scottish Championship play-offs but were beaten over two legs by Alloa Athletic in the semi-finals.


Two teenagers have been arrested following a large-scale disturbance in Glasgow in which one man died and five were injured.

The pair, aged 16 and 17, are in custody in connection with an alleged serious assault.
The incident happened near a children's play area in Ballantay Terrace in Castlemilk at about 20:00 on Saturday.
The men are expected to appear in court on Friday.
Earlier police launched a murder inquiry after Jamie Lee, 22, was shot and killed during the incident.


As a child when Sir Richard Branson said anything nasty about anyone else, his parents sent him to his room to look at himself in the mirror.

He would have to stand there staring at his reflection thinking about what he'd said.
His parents' intention was to try to make him realise that being nasty or negative about other people was unkind and reflected badly on him.
It was an effective lesson. "Looking at myself in the mirror for five minutes wasn't much fun so I stopped ever criticising people," he says.
Even once he grew up to become the founder of Virgin Group - which has gone from a mail order record company to having businesses in telecoms, travel and financial services - it's a practice he's stuck to.
Sir Richard is adamant that to this day it's some of the most important advice he's ever received.
"If I ever hear people gossiping about people I'll walk away. As a leader you've just got to get out there and look for the best in people and that's really really important.
"Let them get on with it, not criticise them when they make mistakes and praise them when they do good things," he says.
It seems surprising that someone could become one of the UK's best-known and wealthiest entrepreneurs, creating a multi-million pound business, without criticising their staff.
Yet while the stereotypical image of an all powerful, dominant, alpha-male type character running a company persists, in many cases it's an outdated image.
The financial crisis in particular has forced a widespread rethinking of how to run a business and the days of the all powerful, domineering chief executive may be coming to an end.
Not criticising is just one element of a less hierarchical approach to being the boss.
CEO coach Steve Tappin says the pressure of having the top job means that it's easy for chief executives to "fall into the trap" of trying to be a superhero, pretending to know it all and unwilling to admit any failings.
"The best chief executives are not like that. They know that great leaders are great learners," he says.
Andrew Penn, chief executive of Australian telecommunications giant Telstra, has been the boss of the firm for less than a year, and despite having previously been at the helm of another large firm he says that it's impossible to have all the answers.
"The days of the rock star CEO are long gone. The CEO is just a member of a team and it's about bringing together a capable team," he says.
Nonetheless, he says, as the person officially in charge, it's important to have enough self confidence to lead the firm according to your own convictions.
Of course, it won't always go to plan. In fact, Mr Penn says he's made so many mistakes that it's impossible to list them all, but says it's all part of building up valuable experience and that crucially he learned a lot from them.
In the end what people remember is less what the boss did and more how he behaved, he says:
"When you're going through tough situations it's as important how you conduct yourself through the process as it is in terms of the actual decisions that you make in the process.
"Ultimately what people will remember more than anything, is how you behaved and how you conducted yourself and how you acted as a leader as much as whether or not you actually made the right or the wrong decision."
As far as Dominic Barton, global head of management consultancy firm McKinsey, is concerned, a boss new to the role should avoid making any major decisions at all initially and recognise that it will take time to learn how to do the job effectively.
Despite having been at the firm for over two decades before he took the helm, Mr Barton says heading up an organisation is very different. In his case, he says it took him two years just to get to grips with the different dynamics of being in charge.
Working out what the main issues to tackle are, and who can be relied upon to help drive the changes takes time and means it's important not to rush into anything, he says.
"It takes a while to establish legitimacy.
"Even if you've been appointed or elected, people, are saying how is this person going to work," he says.
Filipa Neto, co-founder of Chic by Choice, an online marketplace start-up which rents out designer dresses, enabling people to hire rather than buy them, has experienced exactly this problem, but with people outside the business.
As a 25-year-old boss of the start-up she says it has been hard to persuade more well-known designers and established brands to join her database of suppliers.
But she's not been discouraged. To prepare herself for the company's growth and being in charge of a larger firm she spends her spare time reading up on business books to find out how other chief executives succeeded.
"I learn a lot from all these people and I never forget. If somebody else has already done it in a clever way, why should I try to reinvent the wheel?
"I don't want to make the mistakes they've already made," she says.
This feature is based on interviews by CEO coach and author Steve Tappin for the BBC's CEO Guru series, produced by Neil Koenig.


A prison governor has been seriously injured during an "unprovoked" beating at the hands of an inmate.

Paul Cawkwell was talking to a prisoner in the canteen at HMP Wayland, Norfolk, when he was attacked, a source told the BBC.
The source, who wishes to remain anonymous, said the inmate had been transferred to another jail since last Wednesday's attack.
The Ministry of Justice confirmed that police were investigating the assault.
The source expressed concerns about staffing at the category C prison, echoing the findings of a report last year.
"Out of anyone, you would have thought there would have been people around who would have been able to get him away quickly."
Mr Cawkwell, who has held a number of senior positions in the prison service, has received hospital treatment for his injuries.
A prison service spokesman said it did not tolerate violence against staff and would "push for the strongest possible punishment".
In its last annual report, Wayland's Independent Monitoring Board said it was concerned about staffing at the prison citing "staff shortages of up to 22%".
Vice chairman Roger Marston said the board was due to publish its latest report soon and that "a huge amount had been done in terms of recruitment and we have a full complement of staff."
He added that although not huge, there had been an increase in violence at the jail this year.
However, there have been a number of reports of disruptions at HMP Wayland this year.
In May, about 20 inmates were involved in a "food fight" which broke out during lunch, while two inmates attempted to grab keys from officers in a separate incident in June.
Another HMP Wayland inmate was jailed in June for an assault on two guards, during which one was bitten, according to police.


Computer-guided surgery achieves more accurate results in hip replacement operations, a new study has suggested.

Standard practice is for surgeons to judge the position of the hip by eye and currently about 70% of replacements are correctly positioned.
A study of 229 patients across Scotland between 2008 and 2012 suggests that accuracy increases to more than 90% when surgeons use detailed 3D imaging.
The study was conducted at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank.
Consultant orthopaedic surgeon Kamal Deep recently told the British Orthopaedic Association Congress that the research aimed to prove the effectiveness of computer navigation software in hip replacements.
"At the moment, standard practice for most procedures relies largely on the surgeon's best judgement and pre-operative x-rays to ensure the replacement joint is in the correct position," he said.
"However, with computer assisted navigation, we have detailed 3D orientation of the surgical area and instruments which can dramatically improve accuracy, reduce the risk of complications at a later date and improve the quality of a patients care."
Mr Kamal said further research was necessary to determine the long-term advantages of this approach to patients.
The study looked at a cross section of 229 post-operative x-rays of patients from across Scotland between 2008 and 2012.