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“You have been the most fantastic experience of my life. I’ve been able to manage some of the greatest players in the country. These last minute goals, the comebacks, even the defeats, are all part of this great football club of ours. Your job now is to stand by our new manager.”
Those were Sir Alex Ferguson’s last few words, as he stood at the centre of the Manchester United universe, after the final whistle against Swansea last season.
He reminded us all of the journey we had gone with him, and made sure what he was expecting of the supporters when David Moyes took over.
To support Moyes, just the way we did with Ferguson, and soak up every win, every defeat, every goal, and even lacklustre performances, because that’s what football is all about.
11 games into the new season and I have never been so turned off football – not for the way United have been performing, or the results, but mainly due to my fellow supporters.
The whinging, the abuse, the pathetic pleas and repeated phrases of “Moyes has no idea” are getting old, getting tiring, and sucking the life out of football.
No one ever said the post-Ferguson era was going to be sparkly and easy.
It’s been hard to watch, hard to see our club performing so dourly and the thing that hurts most is not seeing our club perform with that ‘never say die’ attitude we were always so used to seeing.
But still, that doesn’t give us the right to go on the way some have.
Moyes isn’t entirely to blame, he has been thrown into a war zone, wasn’t properly backed by the board, started late and he was unprepared.
Our performances are suffering for it, but the guy is still trying to work out which XI works best, and I’m cool with that.
The 2013/14 season was always going to be about rebuilding and rebooting ourselves.
Saturday’s XI versus Southampton was close to our starting best. It was really brave for Moyes to dump our club captain and senior centre back for Jonny Evans and Phil Jones, and they were our best performing boys on the pitch.
Another brave decision was continuing to fledge Adnan Januzaj. Kudos to David and the board for signing him up for the next five years, this is what our club’s all about.
Adnan was immense. He continued his great form and played a crucial role in United’s goal, playing through a fantastic pass to Rooney.
He showed off his delicious passing ability – all match he was spraying the ball so accurately 40 yards across the pitch, and had some great attempts on goal.
It’s really hard to believe this lad is only 18 years of age!
There are some positives so far, the negatives may be outweighing them at the moment but this season is still in its infancy.
I don’t believe we will win the league this year, but whatever happens will be pivotal for the future of this club.
So if y’all just take a step back, put things in perspective, actually get behind the man who was chosen by Sir Alex to lead us forward and stop living up to the stereotype that opposition supporters put on us, then maybe good fortune will be just around the corner.
We have no right to win matches, to win leagues, to win cup competitions consistently. In the football world, clubs ride tidal waves, one season you’re up, and the next you may be down.
But the down seasons always make the up seasons so much sweeter!
So enjoy it, embrace the defeats, it’s fun to be the underdogs, it’s fun to fight back and prove everyone wrong. It’s fun to be United.
Stand by our manager and just embrace everything that’s happening, rather than whinge at every goddamn moment that’s possible.
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