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Shortly after we appointed McLeish, Randy Lerner gave one of his "once every ten years" interviews, and said that he was so sure the McFuck appointment was right because shortly after, he'd received a letter from "Sir Alex" congratulating him on the appointment. As if that wasn't enough, he then went on to say that "when someone like Sir Alex tells you that, you listen", and - even more excruciatingly - that he "kept it safely under lock and key". I honestly think that, with the exception of several of our performances under said McFuck, it was the most embarassed I have ever been as an Aston Villa supporter. It also made me think that, no matter how much good work they do, or how much they try to give off the vibe that they "get it", Americans will never, ever truly understand English football. If you'd relayed that story to any English football supporter, they'd wince, but an American who actually owns a club, and has shown himself to be one of the better US owners, just had no idea what he was saying. There will always be an elusive 5% that they just do not, and can not, get.

I think the main thing Ferguson sees is that he, too, is a dour Scot. The main thing the Glazers probably see, when Ferguson recommends him, is that Moyes works without much money to spend.

Your wife sounds incredibly sensible, Leffe.

I'd bet pretty much everything I own that the person with by far the most input into who follows him was Ferguson himself.

Don't worry. We're going to totally bum Chelsea on Saturday.

I'm getting to the point where the coverage of this story is making me want to gouge out my eyes and slice off my ears to make it go away. I know it is big football news, but, really, the first story on the BBC national news earlier? Still the second story hours later?

why? the shops selling the shirts and scarves will still be there for them to come from all over, dress up and wave flags, and not really understand whats going on on the pitch anyway. I was just watching the news, and, having got over the sheer wankness of it being the first story on the national news, they went to Old Trafford and asked a couple of spackers what they thought of it, and some total douchebag with a North American accent said it was as if someone had died. Yes, your stone cold, icy heart, that is what is dead, you revolting fucking gloryhunter. I hope your plane back crashes.

I understand MON is looking for a job. I could see that. But he'll be waiting by the phone for the call from Man United about now.

I understand MON is looking for a job.

I can't wait for the coronation. Is it held at Westminster Abbey?

Someone like this guy. http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/250x250/32897075.jpg

I think Moyes is a good manager, but club management at the top clubs is entirely different now compared to the way it was when Ferguson got the job. For starters, the expectation that Man United will play in the CL every year, and compete enough to win it, means that their manager needs to have deep experience of managing in that competition. Moyes doesn't have anything like enough of that. Maybe Ferguson lingering on their board will help, but I still suspect it'll be someone else.

atm = "since about 1992"

Tbf it's always funnier to see a big club go down. That said 'plucky little Wigan' can fuck off, wanted them down from the start of he season. Such a nothing little club, scraping by each season when they decide to play the last few games. Everyone wants to see a big club down, you're definitely right there, but I also think that most people - whilst admitting Wigan have a perfect right to be in the top flight if they manage to avoid relegation - are now sick to the tits of them. Lots and lots of people seem to think Dave Whelan is the most enormous cocksocket, too. Which he is.

Wigan turned on the Wigan style defending. That's the thing people have been overlooking for weeks now. It's all well and good Wigan doing the business going forward, but they can't defend for shit. They make our defence look like a 1980s Italian national side.

Yep. Still, there's always the Wolves job. http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md95uagwKT1qck737.gif

Some trouble, as in its still possible, I could have even included Stoke really. I know. I'm just letting the euphoria go to my head.

Of course they will. Wigan are done for.

Point of order. We're not still in trouble. We're 100/1 with some bookies to go down now. I am as pessimistic as the next man, but there's no chance we're going down after this evening.

I was on the Holte End on Boxing Day 1989, when we took Man United apart. We were singing "Fergie on the dole", and I recall the Sun the next day had the same thing across its back page. Oh how wrong we were. Ironically, when we were neck and neck with them for the title the first time he won them it (92-3), it was the continued presence of Ferguson, and therefore the birth of "Fergie Time" which saw them win the league as they got a full SEVEN f***ing MINUTES of injury time against Sheffield Wednesday and Steve Bruce scored twice. That was the single most gutting day of my football life. Just thinking about it now, i feel genuinely sick. Eurgh that must have been awful. Did they need to win to win the league? No, there were four more matches left as I recall, but you just knew, when they won that match, that they were going to stay on top, and they did. It was the true birth of Fergie Time.

I was on the Holte End on Boxing Day 1989, when we took Man United apart. We were singing "Fergie on the dole", and I recall the Sun the next day had the same thing across its back page. Oh how wrong we were. Ironically, when we were neck and neck with them for the title the first time he won them it (92-3), it was the continued presence of Ferguson, and therefore the birth of "Fergie Time" which saw them win the league as they got a full SEVEN FUCKING MINUTES of injury time against Sheffield Wednesday and Steve Bruce scored twice. That was the single most gutting day of my football life. Just thinking about it now, i feel genuinely sick.

Ha ha ha, I know it's bad, but that made me piss myself laughing.

This weekend, you beat QPR. In a week's time, Wigan go to the Emirates and lose. Hey ho, Wigan are gone.

There's a decent chance that it could fall to us to relegate Wigan on the last day of the season. I think we'll be speaking for the rest of the country when we fuck that utter cocksocket Whelan up, especially given some of his comments about us when we sniffed around Martinez.

Yes, but for almost half of the league.