THE reign of David Moyes at Manchester United was fun — for opposition supporters.But it had to end.What was unthinkable nine months ago has happened. David William Moyes has been sacked from the manager’s job at Manchester United, after just one turbulent season in charge. The news broke on Monday afternoon, as if the media reporting it thought that they would receive a call at any moment to declare it a hoax. But eventually all media from the seediest tabloids to the most precious Fleet Street papers announced that the sacking was hours away.Perhaps even in his retirement Alex Ferguson still has some of the notoriety that reduced journalists to grinning schoolboys in his presence. To announce that Moyes was about to lose his job was to admit that he was terribly wrong in his decision to anoint his Everton counterpart as his successor.About a year ago the acclaimed manager stood on the famous Old Trafford pitch and said: "I’d also like to remind you that when I had bad times here t...
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