But sometimes you just have to accept that you have got the wrong man. Moyes should never have been appointed in the first place. United hired a midtable manager who has turned them into a midtable team quicker than anyone could have anticipated. Moyes used his post-match press conference to take “full responsibility” for United’s disastrous season and to emphasise the lengthy “rebuilding job” he is determined to oversee at Old Trafford. Rebuilding? These are the champions of England who should only have required a measure of fine tuning. A complete overhaul is required only because Moyes has attached sticks of dynamite to a skyscraper and demolished it to its foundations. Moyes inherited a squad that won the Premier League by 11 points last season, now United sit seventh in the table, 18 points off top and 12 behind fourth placed Arsenal. City crossed this great footballing metropolis and rolled over United like they were mid-table cannon fodder, just as Liverpool had nine days earlier. There has not been a single sign of progress. In 13 matches against teams in the top nine of the Premier League, United have managed just one victory and accumulated seven points. It is beyond pathetic. Perhaps the most damning indictment of United’s performance against City was that it was such a routine victory for the visitors, so utterly predictable.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:56:23 +0000
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