Chaos and acrimony are more familiar to Manchester United than you may think | Jonathan WilsonYesterday at 20:07Erik ten Hag is far from alone in finding Old Trafford degenerating into a swirl of confusion around himOn Sunday, Aston Villa, fifth in the table, perhaps drained after Wednesday's euphoric win over Bayern Munich, drew 0-0 against a lower mid-table side. But this is Manchester United we're talking about. How can the most successful team in English league history, the club with the highest average attendances, have got things so badly, so consistently, wrong? The basic law of football is that money rises, that the rich eventually prevail: for United to defy that basic truth for so long represents a remarkable commitment to mismanagement. This is an extract from Soccer with Jonathan Wilson, a weekly look from the Guardian US at the game in Europe and beyond.

Source: The Guardian October 07, 2024 15:24 UTC