Sunday, 25 December 2016

The fall of David Moyes: his final hours as Manchester United manager

Sunderland’s David Moyes returns to Old Trafford on Boxing Day for the first time since his short reign ended in April 2014. In an extract from his book A Season in the Red, Jamie Jackson describes the countdown to the sacking

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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