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Manchester United Balls: More What The Experts Said When David Moyes Was Made Manager
EPISODE 2 of what the experts said when David Moyes was made Manchester United manager:
Russell Brand, The Guardian, May 21 2013:
This is why the emphasis at Old Trafford is on continuity rather than revolution, with Moyes as Bob Paisley and Scotland as some giant, rugged Anfield boot-room. Ferguson’s potency must be bestowed, a hereditary successor appointed. If there could be a son selected from those available it would not be Darren Ferguson schooled at The Posh but David Moyes, stern and stoic, hewn if not from the same DNA, then the same rock, the same nation, the same mythic paradigm. Sir Alex has urged his followers not to call him Boss, to reserve that moniker for Moyes. He has appointed and anointed, given unto them his son, if not his flesh, his likeness.
Russell Brand, The Guardian, May 23 2014:
Ferguson when he was asked to nominate a successor, the nearest approximation of an Anfield boot-room appointment considered instead to be the translucent Moyes, a pale imitation of himself, so pale in fact his impotent palpitations could be witnessed on a vascular level as United throbbed to a final flaccid loss at Goodison Park. Moyes, a pale imitation of himself, so pale in fact his impotent palpitations could be witnessed on a vascular level as United throbbed to a final flaccid loss at Goodison Park.
Jeremy Cross, Daily Star, Feb 27, 2014:
EXCLUSIVE: Manchester United boss David Moyes will not be leaving Old Trafford – DAVID MOYES will not be sacked as Manchester United boss – despite mounting speculation that he is set to leave Old Trafford.
The Sun, May 10, 2013:
The passion and determination that were the hallmarks of Moyes’s 11 years at Everton make him the outstanding candidate”
And the pick of the bunch:
Barney Ronay, the Guardian, October 4, 2013:
“And yet for all this Moyes is an excellent manager who could probably succeed anywhere with the right backing. He can even afford to tread water a little while he finds his voice…”
Barney Ronay, The Guardian, April 22, 2014:
Farewell, then, David Moyes. You made some mistakes as Manchester United manager. But none of them, let’s face it, as gapingly inept as the decision to appoint you Manchester United manager in the first place… In the end Moyes’s greatest failing during the last 10 months was simply to walk into Old Trafford and act like David Moyes…
Posted: 30th, April 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Liverpool Balls: Statue To Manchester United’s Messiah Moyes Erected Outside Anfield
THE wags from a betting firm erected a stature to forcibly retired Manchester United manager David Moyes outside Liverpool’s Anfield ground.
Unless it is The Chosen One touting for spare change as a living statue?
Anyhow, United have moved on. Louis Van Gaal is now the name on fans’ lips:
“Come on Louis Van Gaal, play like Moyes’ gals”
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Posted: 27th, April 2014 | In: Liverpool, manchester united, Sports | Comments (2)
Manchester United Balls: Lothario Ryan Giggs Tears You Apart – The Pick Of The Old Trafford Banners
RYAN Giggs is the manager of Manchester United. What say the fans of the lothario (surely sick love rat? – ed) now at the helm?
Wear the mask and pull the birds
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Posted: 27th, April 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Manchester United Balls: Louis van Gaal Signs 3-Year Deal At Manchester United Without United Knowing
HAVE Manchester United made Louis van Gaal the new manager?
The De Telegraaf newspaper in Holland claim the man has singed a three-year deal. And Patrick Kluivert will be his assistant.
The British Press then report the news:
Yes.
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Posted: 26th, April 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Manchester United Balls: Ferguson Supported Moyes To The Hilt
MANCHESTER United balls: How much did Alex Ferguson fight for David Moyes to be given more time?
David McDonnell in the Daily Mirror:
Moyes reckons Ferguson deliberately distanced himself from him as results worsened and the mood among the United board shifted… It is understood support from his predecessor ebbed away as United’s decline under Moyes became more dramatic
Neil Curtis in The Sun:
“Sir Alex Ferguson tried to save David Moyes from the axe. The former boss stayed loyal to Moyes until the very end, pleading his case as the rest of the Manchester United board prepared to sack him”
Such are the facts…
Posted: 25th, April 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Manchester United Balls: Fan Updates His “Moyes Out’ Buttocks Tattoo
THE Manchester United fan who inked a ‘Moyes Out’ tattoo on his buttovcks has updated the m-arse-terpiece? to proclaim “Moyes Out JOB DONE”.
It was the arse wot dunnit.
Posted: 24th, April 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Manchester United Balls: Daily Mail Leads Contest To Write The Most Useless David Moyes Story
MANCHESTER United are without a full-time manager. The players are running wild. Order has broken down. The Daily Mail’s Richard Arrowsmith spots the truants tearing up the shopping precinct. Well, not quite:
Wayne Rooney, Phil Jones and Rafael play a relaxing round of golf the day after David Moyes is sacked by Manchester United
Wow, indeed. Is that the most pisspoor David Moyes story yet printed?
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Posted: 24th, April 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Manchester United Balls: David Moyes’ Failure Earns United A Fortune
THE Guardian is not a tabloid. Mindful of that, Simon Godley talks of Manchester United:
Manchester United face loss of more than £200m over David Moyes’ sacking
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Posted: 23rd, April 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Manchester United: When Assistant Manager Jimmy Murphy Took Over From Matt Busby In 1958
THE last time Manchester United had an interim manger was after the Munich Air Disaster. United’s Assistant Manager Jimmy Murphy didn’t travel to Belgrade with the team due to his commitments as Welsh national manager – Wales were playing Israel in Cardiff on the same night as Red Star Belgrade were due to play Manchester United match in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
In this picture dated 06/02/1958, he fields telephone inquiries from concerned fans just hours after the disaster.
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Posted: 23rd, April 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Manchester United News Round-Up: Moyes Ousted By Bankers, Sex And Ferguson
THE front and back pages and chockfull of Manchester United news.
The Sun has an “exclusive”.
Inside, we read:
Reds on the ropes after manager is dismissed
The scoop, which employed FOUR journalists, is:
MANCHESTER United will be investigated by Wall Street watchdogs over their handling of David Moyes’ sacking — which added $209million to the giant club’s value.
Moyes was yesterday said to be angry and devastated, both at his dismissal after only ten months as boss and the fact that news of it leaked out the day BEFORE he was officially axed.Investors were also left fuming by the reported leak as shares leapt by seven per cent. Now United potentially face a rebuke or fine from the New York Stock Exchange — where the shares are listed — and the US Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly briefing journalists before alerting shareholders.
It’s an exclusive?
What say the money experts at the FT?
Simon Kuper writes in the FT:
Money buys success in football and several clubs now have more money than United. From 1997 through 2004, United topped the consultancy Deloitte’s “rich list” of European football clubs ranked by revenues. In 2012-13, United dropped out of the top three for the first time since Deloitte began compiling the list. Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich now have higher revenues. Moreover, Chelsea, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain have oil-rich owners who pump money in rather than sucking it out. By the logic of the market that means there are six clubs in Europe more likely to win the Champions League than United. In the domestic league, by the same logic, the club’s natural position is now third behind Chelsea and Manchester City.
So. Money matters. Who knew?
Over in the Indy, Ian Herbert has the “inside story” of Moyes’ fall.
In a back corridor of The Hawthorns six weeks ago, David Moyes gave full force to his temper when expressing his displeasure at the characterisation of one of his regular written communiques to fans as an ‘open letter.’ Venom has always been one of his components.
There have been attempts to rein in his ire and his sometimes bare contempt for those who question him: the Easter eggs on offer before his last pre-match press conference on Good Friday felt like a choreographed softening.
Other papers realise that Ryan Giggs, the new caretaker manager, has a spot of history:
As for Moyes losing out on £20m, as the Star reports
As he prepared for the hotseat, axed Moyes was dealt a hammer blow with his compensation deal slashed by £20m… But his failure to qualify for the Champions League triggered an “ejector seat” clause in his deal. That allowed United’s owners the Glazer family to get rid of him for £5m, which is 12 months salary and peanuts in terms of pay-offs at football’s highest level.
He lost £20m. Or, to put it ion saner terms, David Moyes walked away with a £5m for 10 months of failure. Make the man not a footy manager but a banker and you’ve got a story of outrage and wailing shareholders.
The Mail opts to lead with Giggs and his one true love |(that’s Mrs Giggs).
So, Giggs is a top gap. And then what?
The Star says Alex Ferguson will choose the next United manager, just as he chose Moyes to succeed him.
Eeny, meeny, miney… CARLO!
Whoever comes next, there first job might be to kick out Fergie and his chums:
As Kevin Garside notes:
Wilf McGuinness, Frank O’Farrell, Tommy Docherty, Dave Sexton and Ron Atkinson all went in the 17 years that separated the reigns of Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson.
A legacy can weight heavy…
Posted: 23rd, April 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Manchester United Balls: Moyes Sacking Proves Spurs Reject AVB Was Right About Media Bias
MANCHESTER United fan Gary Neville points out that giving a man a six-year contract, such as the one the United board gave David Moyes, and then sacking him after 10 months is odd. Neville has been consistent. But what of Martin Samuel, who wrote in the Mail when Andre Villas-Boas was being shown the door at Spurs:
Villas-Boas wondered why nobody turned an invasive spotlight on David Moyes’s struggles at Manchester United, yet he was considered under pressure as Tottenham floMANCHESTER United fan Gary Neville points out that giving a man a six-year contract, such as the one the United board gave David Moyes, and then sacking him after 10 months is odd.
Neville has been consistent. But what of Martin Samuel, who wrote in the Mail when Andre Villas-Boas was being shown the door at Spurs: undered. He hinted that good old British managers received different treatment to young foreign ones. He never understood that it is the clubs that set these agendas, not the critics.
It’s not AVB’s critics. And there were plenty of them at the Mail.
Samuel added:
Villas-Boas could never fathom the difference between United handing Moyes a six-year contract on the recommendation of Sir Alex Ferguson, and his arrival as Tottenham’s fifth manager in eight years.
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Posted: 22nd, April 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment (1)
Manchester United Balls: The 5 Best Stories About Louis Van Gaal
HEAVILY tipped to be taking over from David Moyes at Manchester United after the World Cup, Louis van Gaal has a bit of a reputation in football circles of – how can we put this delicately – being a bit of a deranged megalomaniac, with many cracking apocryphal stories and quotes being attributed to the man over the course of his long career in football.
Here are Pies’ five favourites…
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Posted: 22nd, April 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Manchester United Balls: What The Experts Said When David Moyes Was Made Manager
DAVID Moyes has been a poor manager at Manchester United. But what did the experts say when he was appointed to the job?
Sir Alex Ferguson:
“When we discussed the candidates that we felt had the right attributes we unanimously agreed on David Moyes. David is a man of great integrity with a strong work ethic. I’ve admired his work for a long time and approached him as far back as 1998 to discuss the position of Assistant Manager here. He was a young man then at the start of his career and has since gone on to do a magnificent job at Everton. There is no question he has all the qualities we expect of a manager at this Club.”
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Posted: 22nd, April 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Manchester United Balls: Newspapers Agree That Moyes Was Right To Be Paranoid
DAVID Moyes is on his way out of Manchester United. The man who made a complete hash of managing the Premier League Champions is out of Old Trafford.
When back in August, Moyes observed, “I think it’s the hardest start Manchester United have had for 20 years”, we thought it odd for the man managing the country’s biggest club to be complaining about United’s first five fixtures – home to Chelsea, Swansea and Crystal Palace, and away to Liverpool and Manchester City.
He added: “I find it hard to believe that’s the way the balls came out of the bag, that’s for sure. I hope it’s not because Manchester United won the league quite comfortably last year that the fixtures have been made more difficult.”
Moyes had made his point. We’d always thought that every team played every other team home and away over the season, that the season – all in all – is pretty much the same for every club. After the start, October brought an away game at Sunderland and home matches against Southampton, Stoke and Norwich.
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Posted: 21st, April 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comments (2)
Manchester United Balls: David Moyes ‘Sacked’ Just As Season Ticket Renewal Notices Got Out
JOIN the dots, Manchester United fans:
April 13 – Manchester United’s twitter page announces season tickets for next season are on sale:
UNITED. Be part of the story. Join the Season Ticket Priority List for 2014/15
Manchester United owners, the Glazers, offer cut-price tickets for ties in Europe next season at Old Trafford – Glazers sanction 25 per cent cut in ticket prices for Europa League ties at Old Trafford if David Moyes’s team qualifies
April 20 – Everton 2, Manchester United 0
April 21, 2014 – Jamie Jackson, writes in the Guardian:
David Moyes facing the sack at Manchester United – Manager a dead man walking at Old Trafford
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Posted: 21st, April 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Liverpool And Manchester United Balls: It’s Like 2013 All Over Again
LIVERPOOL Balls: The very big-spending, foreign-owned Reds are at the Top of Premier League. Having beaten very very very big spending foreign-owned Manchester City 3-2, Liverpool are two points above very, very big spending, foreign-owned Chelsea. All three clubs have
To the Daily Mail’s Martin Samuel this is a triumph of the English spirit.
These days, to rise from seventh last season to become champions is the equivalent of Nottingham Forest winning promotion, and then the championship a year later. To do so with a predominantly British starting XI is equally a feat from a bygone age. We had accepted that champions were foreign entities now. A title-winning team with an English spine? We thought its time had passed.
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Posted: 14th, April 2014 | In: Liverpool, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Manchester United Balls: United Fans Beg David Cameron To Offer David Moyes Full Support
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Posted: 9th, April 2014 | In: manchester united | Comment (1)
Manchester United Balls: Wayne Rooney Makes The Sun’s Dream Team Even When He Doesn’t Play
HOW good is Wayne Rooney? He’s so good that when the dire Sun on Sunday came to picking their team of the week, they picked the Manchester United star to play up front with someone called “Rodellaga”, a possible relation to Fulham’s Hugo Rodallega.
It’s also odd because Rooney didn’t play in United’s 4-0 win over Newcastle. still, good to see tweeting support for the actual team getting the recognition it deserves.
The Sun is dying on its feet.
Manchester United And Frank Munn 1928: The Player’s Cigarette Card V The Player
FLASHBACK to September 1 1928: How much did Manchester United footballer Frank Munn resemble his Player’s cigarette card?
The card in 1929:
Munn in 1929:
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Posted: 1st, April 2014 | In: Flashback, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Manchester United Balls: The Plane-Flown Anti-Moyes Banner Shows The Modern Fan Is An Idiot
MANCHESTER United fans have become a monocular, retrospective bunch. Used to success in the Alex Ferguson years, a group of them are looking to raise enough money to hire a plane to fly over Old Trafford during Saturday’s game against Aston Villa towing an anti-David Moyes banner behind it.
The campaign began on the Red Issue fanzine’s forum in reaction to the bit-sad corporate slogan-style “Chosen One” banner that is hung in the Stretford End – a banner which had to be closely guarded by an entire garrison of stewards following United’s derby defeat to City on Tuesday night…
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Posted: 27th, March 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
Manchester City Balls: Moyes Falls For Tabloid Tactics As Pellegrini Makes His Points
THE Manuel Pellegrini story is getting to be a bit like George Bush’s plastic turkey. You know that story.? It’s the one about the then President George ‘Dubya’ Bush feeding the US troops a Thanksgiving dinner of plastic turkey. It was utter balls. But the media had a fact they would not let go of. So. Dubya’s plastic turkey became true. Though palpably false, the story lives on.
And so we get to the affable Manchester City manager, Pelligrini. In February 2013, he said:
“If we only consider this season, there is just one club in Manchester and it’s ours.But you cannot forget what United has done in the previous years.”
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Posted: 25th, March 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment
