15 games??Unbelievable...,,United should be signing managers with 15 trophies under their belt....It’s ridiculous and it’s actually criminal that we appointed someone on the back of 15 games.The Norwegian League?Give me a break....
Who cares about him “getting the club” if he’s not good enough for the job?Even I “get the club” cause I”ve supported the club all my life,but it doesn’t mean that I”m good enough to manage the club.SAF had no association with United when he became our manager.....But look what he did for this club.So this entire notion that you have to be a former player to get the club is bunkum in my view...,
Sir Alex Ferguson took over from a certain Ron Atkinson. He'd won the league in Scotland with an unfancied team against the financial behemoths in Glasgow (relative to the strength of their league at least). Sound familiar? Keep reading.
Ron Atkinson was the manager who had come closest to winning the league since Sir Matt had retired. He won a few trophies domestically, and got us to second in the league behind Liverpool of all teams, and we were primed to push on and challenge for the title next season. Again, sound familiar?
After a second place finish, the next season started awfully, the players looked like they had never met before, let alone played together for years. Couple this with some injuries to key players, we had our worse start for years and Big Ron was sacked before New Year. I swear I have seen something similar happen somewhere else recently....
He was replaced by the young Alex Ferguson. Who had all the experience of the Scottish league, and almost immediately he turned the club around winning an FA Cup just 4 years later, with his first league success coming a brief 3 seasons after that
We know the rest of the story, I just felt that some of our younger fans might need to know that the club didnt form in the 92/93 season, and Sir Alex didnt turn a team of misfits into world beaters overnight