“I can see why they were champions,” said David Moyes back in September. “I thought we were really good today. We did an awful lot of good things.” His side had lost at Anfield in abject fashion only moments earlier. Yet, Moyes’ assessment of Manchester United’s performance in losing 1-0 to Liverpool – a match in which the visitors forced ‘keeper Simon Mignolet into just four saves – is a pattern fastidiously pursued by the Scot this season. He was fooling nobody then; fewer still today.
United’s eighth Premier League loss of the season to Stoke City on Saturday – a 10th defeat in 35 competitive matches – is a record unmatched by the Scot’s forebears. In the preceding months his side has lost at home to West Bromwich Albion for the first time since 1978 and to Newcastle United for the first time since 1972. United hadn’t lost to Everton since 1992 and to Swansea City, well, ever.
While the records keep tumbling, the excuse remains the same. United’s 2-1 defeat at the Britannia Stadium was the first since 1984. “I don’t know what we have to do to win,” claimed Moyes in the aftermath.
“I thought we were extremely unlucky. We played well,” he added. Few of the 3,000 travelling Reds concurred with the Scot. Aside from delivering just five of 33 attempted crosses, in another glaring confirmation Moyes’ sole tactical approach, United also succeeded with just 13 of 47 long balls launched into the swirling Potteries wind.
Yet, Moyes’ affirmation of United’s performance at Stoke serves only to underline the Scot’s failing credibility. It is perhaps so damaged that the predictable post-match analysis has become the nation’s favourite sitcom. Except this one isn’t funny; a farce that has long since past it’s scheduled end in a series with such deep roots that the gag has become pastiche.
The Scot slipped into denial early though, pressure building from the moment he stepped across Carrington’s threshold and into the goldfish bowl. “It is one game,” said Moyes in September, after Manchester City had thrashed United 4-1 at Eastlands. “There are plenty more to come and plenty of time to fix it.” There were plenty more to come. Fix it Moyes has not.
Later that month the Scot mused that United had “controlled the game” in the Reds’ 2-1 home defeat to West Brom, before adding a few weeks later that the loss to Everton “was very similar to the one against Newcastle,” which came in early December. “If we had come out on top in both games I don’t think anybody would have said an awful lot about it,” he reflected with that unerring Glaswegian stare. Part threatening, part rabbit in caught in the brightest of headlights.
As a chaotic 2013 tumbled into the New Year Moyes believed that his side “deserved to win” in defeat to Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford. “I thought the team played really well, certainly should have had a penalty.”
Spurs, winning in Manchester for the second season running, enjoyed a 22 per cent conversion rate compared to the home side’s five. In such details are games won and lost; a reputation for integrity built or shattered.
Neither did United “deserve to lose” to Swansea City in the FA Cup a week later, claimed the Scot. Except once again the former Everton manager betrayed his lack of ambition, adding only that United needed “to be hard to play against.” The 50-year-old coach had teed up the Reds’ Premier League loss to Newcastle with the hope that his outfit would “make it difficult” for the travelling Geordies. Ever the underdog it seems.
But so much worse was to come. Moyes’ side was wretched in defeat to Sunderland in the Capital One Cup first leg at the Stadium of Light in early January. The 2-1 loss against the Premier League’s bottom side was United’s third in succession. Another record: the Reds hadn’t secured that prize for 13 years.
Defeat on Wearside also revealed Moyes’ penchant for blame. Attribute defeat to the players, the weather, luck, the Gods, and especially officialdom. Certainly not, however, to the manager.
“We are having to play referees as well as the opposition at the moment,” claimed Moyes after Fabio Borini’s 64th minute penalty. “We’re actually beginning to laugh at them, that’s the thing. It’s really terrible, it really is.”
Less than a fortnight later Moyes would claim, to José Mourinho’s palpable humour, that United would not “throw in the towel” and that his side’s job was to “finish first” before promising that “we’ll try to do that. This is a project and I know what I’m going to do.”
“I don’t think David will be upset if I say the reality,” was Mourinho’s predictable rejoinder.
Few supporters who suffered through United’s 3 – 1 defeat to Chelsea on 19 January shared Moyes’ faith. That the west Londonders barely raised a sweat in brushing Moyes’ outfit aside only compounded the mockery dripping from the Shed End.
It is not only in the aftermath of defeat that Moyes proffers the air of a man out of his depth. In the summer the Scot repeatedly refused to deny that United had bid for Gareth Bale – months after Real Madrid and the Welshman had agreed a deal. Moyes’ public naivety continued through the club’s failed attempt to lure Thiago Alcantara, Cesc Fabregas, Anders Herrera, and Leighton Baines to Old Trafford.
Nor did the manager inspire confidence in claiming of Shinji Kagawa that “they keep telling me how good he is.” Or that “everybody tells me that last year Robin van Persie came up with the goods.” External assessment was not required of the Premier League’s top goalscorer. “They keep telling me that he needed to change his number,” added the Scot of Antonio Valencia.
Yet, Stoke could be a nadir, not only in United’s performances, but Moyes’ approach to the job. It is hard to imagine United’s star falling from here, or Moyes credibility sinking deeper into the gutter. With the club seventh in the Premier League – seven points and goal difference behind Liverpool – United is unlikely to qualify for next season’s Champions League.
Still, “they” have not yet told the manager of a tactical plan B, with the Scot’s one-dimensional approach pervading in the Potteries: “It was our downfall we didn’t score from chances,” said Moyes after United’s latest defeat. “But we must have got to the byline eight or nine times.”
Not that United’s new man would heed the advice. After all “they” told the Scot that criticism is “a trait at Manchester United.”
So was winning. Once.
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boys we must face reality….united WONT sack moyes
FACT….but i know this they jave no choice…if we were not tp get a result against fulham on Sunday…the leagues bottom club…. then united must react…and i must say its down to us supporters to show our concerns….in moyes we trust is almost laughable….
brillian piece sums up the mood of all reds Moyes out NOW
Sums up the mood of all armchair Reds quite possibly but who gives a toss what those wannabes think?
Sadly this is spot on. He’s always making excuses, it’s embarrassing.
great read
Great piece, although no mention of Moyes bringing in his EFC backroom staff which was a major error on his part imo!
Keith, your spot on he should never of changed a winning machine with his own staff that had won fuck all in 11 years at Everton, everyone knows we go it wrong but we “have to” stick by the manager because we are Manchester United, bollocks he should of gone at Christmas but let’s be fair who’s out there to take over really?
The usual response to this will be “give him time” or “go and support *insert team of choice* you glory hunting plastic *insert insult*”
Pellegrini, Mourinho, Martinez, Martino, Ancelotti, Guardiola, and Benitez don’t seem to have any problems.
Nothing I have seem from Moyes tells me he is the man to take United to the next level. His 657 million crosses in to the box are bore. But get used to it. He is going to be here for a number of years yet.
Brilliant post. Spot on.
he’d probably buy himself more time with the supporters if he was at least honest in his assessments.
Mata, Januzaj, Rooney, Kagawa you keep crossing that ball and eventually it will reach its target. Remember we must cross cross cross lads. It’s the only way to play football.
great piece. Moyes is turning MUFC into EFC, he knows his job is safe for at least another year
great piece. Moyes is turning MUFC into EFC, he knows his job is safe for at least another year
quote, “I don’t know what we have to do to win.”
Well you got that bit right, Moyesie.
I have no faith in Moyes anymore. I think yesterday was the last straw and I cannot see a positive future under Moyes. Tactically the guy is completely lost and his coaching team is a bunch of clowns. I respect what he did at Everton, but being Ferguson friend should not have been enough to get the job at Manchester United. The biggest decision we needed to make in years and we messed it up. Simple as!!!
The results would not be tolerated at other top European clubs. If we were Bayern Munich, Juventus, Real Madrid, Chelsea or Barcelona then the manager would have been sacked. We are trying to be all high and mighty with the manager but ultimately we will suffer.
If the board has any balls then they would remove Moyes, Round and Neville tomorrow. We need someone to come in a lift the place and the perfect man is Guus Hiddink. It might only be until the end of the season, but if he comes in then we might have a slight chance of getting 4th spot. If we continue with Moyes then we will finish 7th, 8th or 9th.
Agree with every word.
True unfortunately I love man utd and its a crying shame SACK HIM HES KILLING US! Bunch of muppets in control
Of my team. Get rid!!!!!!!!!
Soooooo true
Watching the Stoke game, Saturday, the commentator referred to Moyes, Round and Neville, sitting together, as ‘the three wise men’ – it made me laugh; then again laughing and crying can be, in a physiological sense, the same reaction to a depressing situation. All three have to go, can’t see United improving: tactically bereft, with players who have little or no confidence in the coaching staff, and a coaching staff that have little or no confidence in themselves at the top level.
Even Liverpool had the balls in the same situation, dealing with Roy Hodgson, Supposedly Good pedigree, but wrong man, wrong time, and shambles ensuing, and having “Lost” the players, GET RID OF MOYES NOW !!
Moyes does not have a clue. He is star struck
moyes is a complete failure,man u is bigger than him,he should resign and let man u be instead of breaking all the records build by. sir Alex. please the glazzers should do something before moyes destroy man u,bad team selection and tactics. Let man u board reason about this,maybe players doesn’t want to play for this man,what reason have moyes had to kept januzaj who has been our main man since beginning of the season on the bench and play young,bringing in welback instead of kagawa is bad. Moyes is a failure he better give up
Well said, fortunately th markets will dictate what happens at United if this continues shares will fall further and the big hedge fund guys will all the shares will give the glaziers a serious going over… I fondly mote shad shown even a little something, but a title winning side(ho matter how poor the opposition) and 70m should deb enough to produce considerably better than 6 losses in 8. It’s relegation form..
That’s the point. We’re Utd. We’re long term. We’re empires. We’re writing history.
David Moyes seems incapable of doing these things.
He’s taken a team that easily won the Prem, albeit with rivals floundering, and he’s sunk us to 7th spot.
So yeah, we’re Utd and we’re long-term. But how long for? The pragmatist in me says Moyes has two seasons in which to win a title; the bigger, the better.
But now I ask myself if Moyes is of the requisite caliber and even if he can deliver the Glazer demands, namely top four finishes and QF in the CL.
Stoke was a weird game. Horrendous conditions, a freak goal, and seriously unfortunate early subs. But would a team under a more inspirational manager have fared better? Let’s ask the honest question; would a Ferguson team have fared better? Probably.
Which begs the questions…
Can we do better than Moyes, and how long do we give Moyes?
I thought he was one dimensional until he came out with: “But we must have got to the byline eight or nine times”
Then I was truly impressed. Genius. Great read.
dis moyes is a stupid man,i tink moyes need 2 be sacked,if united want to qualify for d champions league next season
What next from moyes the ball would not bounce or the ball was not round he should just go back down to liverpool oh I forgot he left them and oh how good they are playing he should just go
What was the Mata Mr moyes
Fergie chose him, and far be it from me to question fergies decision? But… I believe that its clear that moyes is the wrong manager for united and that of martyn oneil, jose mourinho, or harry redknapp or contnuity in mike phelan should of been continued. it is monstrous and ridiculous that moyes was ALLOWED to sack all assistants and bring in his own, get him out now, soon Yesterday, or the days of being relegated to lower status will all be upon my beloved united!
Probably the best post you’ve done. Sums up the way I’m feeling. I’m proud of the fact that as a club we stick by are managers, but the simple fact remains that a team that won the league at a canter, should not be struggling to finish in the top four the season after. Especially as we’ve added 70 million+ worth of talent to that squad. Yes we all knew that team needed rebuilding, yes it was difficult to take over from sir Alex, but the sheer lack of any cohesion or fight on the pitch, is really unnerving.
I’ve stuck with him so far, and I’ve defended him to everyone, but I’m afraid I see in other option than to relieve him of his role.
I’ve managed to stay fully behind Moyes this season on the outside, hiding any internal doubts. However, January has left me in little doubt that he’s to tactically naive to manage a top level team. Fergie wasn’t a tactical genius but used good coaches and when in need of a change from the traditional 4-4-2, he got a foreign coach to help. After Moyes got rid of the coaching staff (his biggest mistake) and brought his inept or un likeable team, he gave himself a big problem. He needs help and if he doesn’t realise that the hierarchy need to step in. For me 4th is gone, the real battle is getting the likes of De Gea, Rafael and Januzaj to believe their future lies at Old Trafford
Moyes is a terrible manager he knows he has the backing of tge board six years contract is a joke maybe Fergie isn’t aas good in the board room as he was on the side lines…first he chose the wrong successor period. As history dictates un tge very same club in question Busby retired n Man its slumped for 26 years why? Bcos he handed the club to a trusted friend instead of the right man for the job after all his friends tried n failed they got an outsider a confirmed winner enter Suralex.
Fergie came and win everything for 25years or so…n then what does he do? He appoints his fellow Scot that’s like the only thing these two guys Fergie and Moyes have in common.
I mean Moyes can’t even take charge of the dressing room he had mata,Rooney,RVP,Welbeck,Hernandez and cleverly and still could not win a game against stoke who has never beat us in almost 30 years…its worst than AVB record loosing 8 in 10 games n 10 already in a season just half way its worst than Di Canio record Jesus Christ whaat happened to United Man city could win four trophies this season basicly obliterate everything Man utsmd has stood for fid decades….i don’t understand what is going on in that club.
And then he loans all the good players…Anderson,Zaha,Fabio those three guys would make a difference bcos they have that creative edge Carrick keep sticking his foot out n causing deflections like put some guys that can dribble in the middle lay a nice through pass to Van Persie or WR of JM …zaha made two assist on his debut for Cardiff we haven’t helped ourselves n we helping other clubs.
Are you on crack?
Seriously. What drugs are you taking?
Prescription pills or maybe a hit of meth?
Anderson, and Fabio are “all the good players”?
Wtf did I just read?
In the next 3 games we will play Fulham(H)….Arsenal (A)….Crystal P (A)….Now my money is on several of our players being injured and more ‘Bad Luck’ for Moyes……Shocking tactics,terrible substitutions,
Players out of position,…we will not get 9 points…Solkjaer’s Cardiff to achieve maximum points and Ole named ‘Manager of the Month’..meanwhile ….Moyes is current and is getting worse……….I reckon it will be us in 9th or 10 th…..15 points behind L’pool or Everton. ……oh yes and more ‘blether from SAF………
Moyes is totally out of his depth. Not sure about Big Sam playing 18th century football, Moyes is even worse.
United should beat Fulham then lose to Arsenal. A thrashing at Palace would surely mean the bullet, just like Frank O’Failure all those years ago.
This guy is a loser. http://t.co/q6UtqwY8oM
@FrontRowUtd I agree with every word here
Hahahahahahahahahaha
spot on and a painfully true read. Not sure why the majority can’t see how lost moyes is. Unfort’ blind faith won’t save us.
Can someone tell me what credential moyes has as a manager? People think he is some sort of rookie, yet i think he has been managing for more than 13 years. Sir Alex made a big mistake, he is human. Some people are only defending moyes because sir alex said so, fact is if he wasn’t british, no chance he woulda gotten the job. Not a chance. Also Fergie recommended Alex Mcleish to villa…Wonder how that turned out. Hopefully when Mr Moyes leave the board will choose his replacement, appointment should be based on experience at the highest level, trophies and an attacking brand of football. Being british and being mates with sir alex should not be a pre-requisite.
To my side Moyes is not a Good Coach Mab y for 2nd Divstn or 3rd Divtn Coach bt not Champions like Man utd…so Sack Moyes to [[manu]] for sure this is my 1st time to see My United My best Club in the wirld in Feb ..postn 7…Moyeeees ouuuuuttttt .GGMU…..
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To my side Moyes is not a Good Coach Mab y for 2nd Divstn or 3rd Divtn Coach bt not Champions like Man utd…so Sack Moyes to save man united for sure this is my 1st time to see My United My best Club in the world in Feb ..postn 7…Moyeeees ouuuuuttttt .GGMU…..
Any of you “fans” matchgoing?
I’ve been matchgoing for 30 years. Can’t speak for anybody else. Is that enough matchgoing to have an opinion?
yes
then these so called fans who are going to stadiums these knobheads will stop signing in moyes we trust busllshit?? they are as guilty as moyes fergie and co is..
You mean proper supporters? One’s that get off their sofas and follow the Shirts through thick and thin as opposed to the likes of you.
“oh every single one of us, will stand by Davie Moyes”
just because you have cash to go in stadium it doesnt make you any better fan. you are daft as a brush if you think moyes is a good coach-get it??:DD you propably like glazers too? that??
Nope. But I know slagging off the manager and moaning and groaning at every misplaced path doesn’t help.
Snobbery amongst fans, whatever next?
Not the best picture of me, but was a difficult day for everyone
damning!
Fantastic article fully agree. Why the fk did he bring Mata in? The man is a joke who plays nothing but a 442 formation and puts Mata out on the right. He has no bright ideas and is stuck in the past. I honestly don’t know y most united fans are content with mid table mediocrity and are stupidly behind home just cos Fergie told u to. GET a fucking grip and hound him out or you will soon find Utd in mid table for a very very long time. Ive had it with Moyes and his inclusion of total shit in Cleverley, Wellbeck, Young and Valencia…Fuck off Moyes and take these useless cunts with u
Succinct and eloquently to the point, !!
Yeah he signed them all.
U sure u not Moyes son?
1 down, 9 more league matches to go till DM gets sacked, right Ed? Still have Arsenal, City, Liverpool and Everton so that leaves 5 games….
Paul worked it out. He’s lost 3 league games since I made that ‘prediction’. So 7 losses in the next 16 league games and he gets the boot…
“they” should tell him that winning is more conducive to keeping his job than losing.
@BusbyMUFC great read sadly true so many united fans have ran out of patience with DM now known all along wrong man for the job
thank god im not alone.
Great piece of writing. Love united 81/2004.
What makes me sad is seeing talents like Mata and Kagawa are wasted and not used to their highest potential. I don’t think Moyesy knows how to use Mata. And the worst thing from yesterday’s game is he still used Cleverley while Fletcher get benched. Not so clever huh?
Expecting a win v Fulham and a loss at Arsenal, and the same rhetoric “turned the corner” and “we were the better team`’ its all denial with shades of grey.
If Fergie hadn’t given Moyes the job, I doubt whether he would have had the balls to apply for it. The guy has got massive self-doubt written all over his face. A total non-winner.
He is making us reds look like liverpool blues we need to send him packing enough is enough even tho Ferguson picked him as his replacement
If indeed it is u, play the players in their right positions,Rooney is not as good as u think he is. Prioritise Mata and Kagawa as yo creative midfielders. Sale Cleverly, Carrick, Fletcher, Rooney, Smalling, Welbeck, Young, Evra, Buttner, retire Giggs! Sale Rooney because he’s the reason y united r nt improving as a team. Everyone thinks he’s the main man but because of that, u’r denying genuine talent the opportunity to play and the team is suffering! Sale Carrick because only English pandits think he’s good and ‘controls/dictates’ play. U should ask y Hogson isn’t so crazy about him. It’s bcoz he isn’t all that! I feel sorry for Evra but too many goals come from his poor marking skills! The rest do.not deserve an explanation, they’r just not good enough! You should also consider.leaving the club,it’s just not your size!!!!!
Current match going Man Utd fans remind me of citizens of a dictatorial regime feeling frightful and nostalgic of a dead dictator. Some of the fans are at this point iseem they support SAF rather than Man Utd supporters. And I hope they will be happy for keeping their word and supporting Moyes while he immerses the club into mediocrity which may take another 26 years to cure.
Sack the Everton shite. Give the job to Giggsy
No we are Manchester United fans that has pride in our club Mr Moyes has made us into a team of second rate players, the team he left to come to us is playing great football something they never did under him, he is making man United into them, time for him to go before
We are holding up the prem table not on top.
I would like the supporters of Moyes to list all his attributes, obvious ones and hidden ones which he has brought to the job.
Up until the last couple of weeks I thought, given the money, Moyes could build a team around his footballing philosophy. Since the needless purchase of Mata (a perplexing move given our current squad) I have given up hope of Moyes bringing continued success to the club. He and the club currently seem clueless.
Out of his depth. Can’t see him changing. We’re playing Victorian football and you don’t have to be in the stand to see that. Will never use Mata and Kagawa right. Never keep the ball on the ground and go at teams through the middle.
Thing is Rooney and RVP back will helps us win some games once they are fit. This wil hide how bad we actually are playing and give credence to the give Moyes time arguement. Time to what?
If Arsene Wenger can create a Championship-winning team and then go ten years without winning a trophy, I’m sure David Moyes could inherit such a team and do the same.
Ferguson was a genius, he got so much out of his players year after year, it was always going to be the toughest act to follow. However, it’s clear that Moyes hasn’t the tactical nous’ or the charisma to keep the club at the very top. Best thing he could do is resign.
DM isn’t a Utd fit… No personality, No charisma, Self doubting, press conferences are boring at best moyes out unfortunately.
A lot of non match goers moaning as per usual, you bunch of glory suporting spoilt brats, He will be given this summer to bring in his own players and after buying 6/7 world class players and we are still 7th he will probably be sacked at the end of next season but until then hes going nowhere so pipe down folks!
People have eyes. Looking from a stand hardly makes the use of them more authoritative.
If you think we will buy 6 or 7 world class players, I’d say you are mad. That would cost more than we will spend. Plus, no one wants to come here.
Also, look at Moyes inability to use the class he has. How is getting more make him suddenly able to stop playing hoof ball?
Some of the reactions here of some match going fans are a clear evidence how its so easy to brainwash a huge population quite easily. The system has always been the same.
1) First lie and make them feel superior and better than the rest. Hence, they say we go in to the stadium for matches and we are better than those who follow via television.
2) Second form a false idol image and link everything good with it. The more far fetched it is the better. Hence Fergie was the best coach ever. Fergie knows everything . Moyes must be a great coach cause Fergie chose him.
3) Combine the above two it gives you the rationale that, the selected few (matchgoing fans) are selected to be the vanguard of Fergies (the idols) mantra. We re not Chelshit etc comments.
4) Define the vanguards task as protectors (Fergies last speech). Add that the more opposition they encounter is proof that they are right (Moyes will come good). Hence the logic all the other fans and normal people saying Moyes is unqualified are haters, plastic, stupid etc are said rather than give reasonable explanations.
5) Make them attempt as vangaurds to convince others to come to their way. Hence the stop complaining and support your club type comments.
Well played SAF he should have been born as a North Korean dictator or a shadow banker, as he follows the Neo Macavelian steps perfectly.
Well, talking of North Korean dictators. There was this…
I reckon the most Macavelian football manager of the lot is Mourinho, a footballing prince of darkness. A perfect successor to Fergie?
He has to be given time. However, what this post fails to iterate is that in Moyes we have a manager who has won nothing: trying to coach players that have won everything. How is he to lead from experience when telling these players how to win, when he hasn’t won himself?
It isn’t a great fit for me. Manchester United is too big for someone to ‘learn the ropes’ at. He may be an experienced manager, but he isn’t an experienced winner.
Perhaps he will prove us wrong and go on to win everything, but right now the confidence in him being able to do that is waining.
He should gooooooooooooooo end of
Moyes out out out
The Rant Cast has been highly critical of DM’s tactics but wasn’t Fergie’s success built on the 4-4-2 with great wing play and overlapping fullbacks. Classic United attacking style so to speak. Arguably the only world class creative central midfielder in the whole Fergie era was Paul Scholes. We all know Veron didn’t work out. Aren’t you guys being unreasonably harsh on DM in this respect?
KJ – I don’t think so. United have become more one dimensional under Moyes. It shows in the data – rank 20th for possession through the centre, ranked 1st for possession on the wings, ranked 12th for long balls (although all the sides above us in the table play fewer long balls), ranked 7th for pass accuracy and 6th for possession time. Ranked 1st for balls from ‘deep wide’ areas. Or to be a little reductive: United play lots of long balls into and from wide areas. This isn’t how Ferguson’s side played at all.
If ‘deep wide’ areas means from our own half then yes its not how Fergie’s teams played. But I remember our wingers (Kanchelskis, Giggs, Becks, Ronaldo) frequently finding space out wide and crossing to great effect. Personally I think Valencia gets a tough rap. Its not so much that he refuses to cross as opposed to trying too hard to lay the ball on a plate for the strikers. He was so successful with cut backs in his first year and I really appreciated that he would hold on to the ball rather than always just trash a dangerous ball across the six yard box without looking like many other wingers do. Anyway he is reliable in his defensive duties (trying my best to ignore what happened against Tottenham) and his strength on the ball means he’s a good outlet to relieve pressure so he would almost always be in my first 11.
In a ‘normal’ season you could accept,perhaps,losing at Stoke,what with the conditions,the early injuries etc etc etc. However this is not a ‘normal’ season.To compound the ineptitude of Moyes tactics is the fact that none of his back-room staff have the ability or the quality to say “hey,this isn’t working” and actually try to change a system in play.There is no experience at top level within the coaches (what the hell has Phil Neville ever coached). A good manager and staff breed confidence.Anyone seen any of this valuable commodity recently?
I look forward with trepidation to Mr Moyes shattering more proud United records in the near future.