David Moyes is alone. The morning of 22 April 2014 is beginning to lighten and he contemplates the wreckage of an unfinished season, a career rocked, a dream soured. He is in the manager’s office at Carrington, the training ground of the world’s most famous football club, Manchester United.
On the door, in white capital letters on a black border, the name plate reads: David Moyes. He remembers his first official day, 1 July 2013, and being photographed by the door, next to his name. Then the picture of him sitting where he sits now, new in the job – he is still new in the job – the desk bare, before settling into the challenge many other managers of reputation might have balked at: being the immediate successor to Sir Alex Ferguson.
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