mwisho2016
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- Jun 27, 2016
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Jose Mourinho has to go.
He had to go two months ago, when he was already moaning in Michigan; when the writing was on the wall. He had to go last month, after losses to Brighton and Tottenham. He had to go four days ago after a cup loss to Derby; three days ago, when his supposed quarrel with Paul Pogba reignited; yesterday, with his general stench becoming more ineradicable by the hour; and now.
But the criticism of the Red Devils last season, despite their second-place finish, was that Mourinho’s style left them susceptible to the thinnest slices of poor luck. A team that takes the game to West Ham needn’t worry about deflections or marginal refereeing decisions. United does.
Its players don’t want to play this way. Pogba wants to “attack, attack, attack.” The personnel is in place. Mourinho is holding it back more than ever.
The result is the olés ringing around the London Stadium, and the United fans filing out of it several minutes shy of 90:00. It’s Lindelof stalking down the tunnel after being sacrificed on 56 minutes, without even any acknowledgement for his boss
He had to go two months ago, when he was already moaning in Michigan; when the writing was on the wall. He had to go last month, after losses to Brighton and Tottenham. He had to go four days ago after a cup loss to Derby; three days ago, when his supposed quarrel with Paul Pogba reignited; yesterday, with his general stench becoming more ineradicable by the hour; and now.
But the criticism of the Red Devils last season, despite their second-place finish, was that Mourinho’s style left them susceptible to the thinnest slices of poor luck. A team that takes the game to West Ham needn’t worry about deflections or marginal refereeing decisions. United does.
Its players don’t want to play this way. Pogba wants to “attack, attack, attack.” The personnel is in place. Mourinho is holding it back more than ever.
The result is the olés ringing around the London Stadium, and the United fans filing out of it several minutes shy of 90:00. It’s Lindelof stalking down the tunnel after being sacrificed on 56 minutes, without even any acknowledgement for his boss