Football: West Ham United defeated Manchester United after a controversial VAR-awarded penalty goal.
Manchester United’s woeful start to the season - 14th in the Premier League after the nine games and 21st in the Europa League after three games - is nowhere near good enough for a club of such magnitude and the regular poor showings meant Erik ten Hag was always on borrowed time.
One-time defender, now Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville, suggested that Australian manager Ange Postecoglou architecting a memorable 3-0 win for Tottenham at Old Trafford last month got the ball rolling on sacking ten Hag. “It’s got worse from then. On Sunday the missed chances were unacceptable, they should have been two or three up at half-time.
“The recruitment has been awful at times but I believe there are a group of players who can play better than they are. “We were just waiting for it to happen. Even the way he was talking that ‘we’re all on the same page’,” Shearer said. There was the thrashing by Tottenham at home, which followed Liverpool belting them 3-0 at Old Trafford as well, then three painstaking Europa League draws were thrown in before the 2-1 loss at West Ham on Sunday was the final nail in the coffin.
After nearly three decades of stability, ten Hag’s replacement - United goal scoring great Ruud van Nistelrooy - will be the ninth person to take charge since Ferguson’s departure. “For the majority of Ten Hag’s reign, no Premier League manager had so much backing, so much control over transfers and so much patience to prove he was the right man. Most coaches in world football could only dream of such support. Ultimately, he failed to make the most of one of the most attractive posts in football.”Carragher continued to also blame the club’s management for not acting swift enough at the end of last season.
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