Why was Ferguson so good? A comforting arm round the shoulder when you needed it but cross him in any shape or form and you waved goodbye to your Utd career. I think there should be distance between manager and player. Get too close and friendship can get in the way of tough decisions.

Nor had Steve Coppell, he didn't turn out too bad

This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.

Now that's genius.

Very Shakespearian.

Clive Woodward's wife started arranging a WAG's group too aimed at supporting the players. No stone left unturned. Something that Southgate and Jones have adopted since. [Link]

Exactly, which is why I think they will be considering Dyche. Possibly a smoother transition required. You cannot argue with what hes achieved at Burnley last 2-3 seasons with arguably a weaker squad than ours. Also when we played them a few weeks ago their passing was really good, pretty much kept the ball all game. However one note of caution for me is that Roys mind numbing non use of subs is actully better than Dyches this season..

I used to watch his Derby when I was at college in Matlock during their first season in the top flight. Love him or hate him, he was simply unique. Now if he was still around...
Of course, he earned his chance at Derby because of his success at Hartlepool (You have to start somewhere, "Jeff" where he and Taylor took the team from the bottom two (they were regularly involved in the re-election to the league vote) into the top half of the table before the pair moved to Derby. As Wiki says, Hartlepool were promoted the following season for the first time in their history.
Too much reminiscing - should have put this under nostalgia but who cares.

It's similar how United went wrong with Wilf. Took an 18 year old away from his big family. Stuck him in a flat on his own, froze him out of the team, wasted a £15m investment over when hiring someone to keep an eye out for him would have been small change.

I heard a few years back that Fergie insisted all Manchester United teams and playing staff have their meal togerther with the idea being that they work together for the same goal. NASA did the same thing, apparently if you asked a cleaner and NASA what they were employed to do they would answer that their job was to help put a man on the moon.

El Tel bought Gazza's parents a house and sister a sunbed.