In today’s Fiver: the north-south letters debate rumbles on, schoolmasterly exhortations and an imminent third-tier omnishambles
A lot has changed since the summer of 2013. David Moyes is no longer regarded as one of the great visionaries of English football, Manchester United have accidentally knocked themselves off their perch after failing to notice that Ed Woodward had tied their shoelaces together and José Mourinho has unlocked a previously unseen passion for all things Euro Vase. Of course, that wasn’t always the case. There was a time when Mourinho regarded it with the contempt he usually reserves for Luke Shaw, Arsène Wenger or the concept of entertainment. He began his second spell at Chelsea, after all, by leaving a foot in on his Euro Vase-winning predecessor and close acquaintance, Rafa Benítez, by revealing that the competition was so far below his standards that he’d rather win an all-expenses paid camping trip to Slough with the Fiver than experience any kind of success in it.
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