GaudinoMotors
Well-Known Member
I like you and I like this post!He has been the cause of the problems, without a doubt. Firstly, as you say, his doomed to failure skirmish with the Coolmore boys enabled Uncle Malc to take the club over and simultaneously saddle it with debts that would hamper united for a decade. Secondly, his strategic failings in the later years of his tenure were egregiously negligent. Add into the cocktail the fact that the whole edifice was built around him, and the cult of his personality, then an absence of any discernible form of succession planning left the club where it is today: rudderless, leaderless and clueless, whilst gibbering to itself about the 'united way'. So yes, the seeds of this current pantomime were sowed many moons ago, but the cracks were effectively covered up by the commercial growth of the club and Ferguson's enduring ability to somehow defy the odds against an ever declining squad. Once he left, all one sees now was almost inevitable; and best of all, they simply don't have the personnel at the club, especially in relation to the Glazers or Woodward, to even begin to turn it round.
I particularly admire the daring use of the past perfect conjugation of to sow. Not many would have been so bold.
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