It has been widely reported, not entirely without glee, that Manchester United have had their worst start to a league season since 1989-90. Plenty of those reports have excluded one not insignificant detail; that the manager of the club back then was Alex Ferguson.
It is easy to forget how truly abysmal Ferguson’s United were between 1988 and 1990. They made the current lot look like freewheeling entertainers by comparison. In April 1989, United scored one goal in five games – and that was an own goal by Tony Adams, all his own work.
Related: Manchester United 2-2 Liverpool: the Class of 92, Spice Boys and Cantona’s return
Solskjær inherited an inadequate, poisonous mess of a squad and now he has a major injury crisis as well
It would be unfair to say there is an anti-Solskjær agenda in the media but there is certainly an anti-Solskjær mood
Continue reading...