Time for a change?
I wrote this piece a while ago, then due to life events in their various forms getting in the way it was never 'properly' submitted and thus I have no idea if it ever made it to print. Anyway, here it is (dated though it now is): It’s fair to say David Moyes hasn’t had a dream start at Old Trafford. Whether it’s entirely fair to lay all the blame for Manchester United’s underperformance this season at his door, the reality is that the reigning Premier League champions look like a long shot to even qualify for next season’s Champions’ League. This would be quite the comedown for anyone, but especially so for United’s success-obsessed supporters. And so, as is the modern custom, certain fans are already calling for Moyes’s head. Managers never used to change this much. How we used to laugh at the continentals and their high-speed coaching merry-go-rounds! And yet, now English fans are used to such phenomena as seven firings in one eight-day period, which happened...