The perfect fumble
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United problem is desperation.
Any other top other six club goes 1-0 down, even 2-0 down. They keep playing. United were better than Spurs in the first half. But Spurs didn't panic. Kept playing. They believed in their system. Got lucky. And won the game. Sure you can keep playing and still lose but at least there is a system - a plan.
United go 1-0 down. They panicked, resorted to long balls. then fell apart. They simply do not believe in anything. There is no system. That is the most shocking thing. Once they went behind they were never going to win the game.
They are the verge of imploding. He has to go. Nothing else can save them. (if indeed they should be saved)
This isn't a football cock up, it's a corporate one.
United simply haven't been able to cope with Ferguson's departure and they are trapped in a corporate set up that means they never will and I mean never. Mega brands in sport, like United, can continue to coin it while producing an inferior product, that doesn't happen elsewhere, ask Nokia. Combine that with the fact that the club exists to service the Glazers debt, and a corporate philosophy that insists on quick fixes, then it should come as no surprise that you end up with a club that is structurally incapable of hitting the re-set button and embarking on a root and branch five year plan.