Tag: Manchester United

The margins between victory and some form of salvation can be extremely narrow. Four minutes into stoppage-time at Old Trafford last night, Zlatan Ibrahimovic spared Manchester United’s blushes with a penalty kick which rescued a point from a drab and frequently ponderous performance against Everton. Seldom before in recent years has the gap between those who drink from a glass half-full and those who drink from a glass half-empty felt so great. A late, late equaliser may have tickled the neurotransmitters of those who recall the halcyon days of “Fergie-time” and the like, and those people can also take...

We’re all detectives this morning, trying to figure out who is leaking stories from Old Trafford. Within an hour of the end of Saturday evening’s FA Cup final, the news that Louis Van Gaal’s time as the manager of Manchester United was coming to an end became public knowledge, followed nanoseconds later by the unofficial confirmation that Jose Mourinho would be replacing him. Since then, the first half of this story has come to be officially confirmed, and it’s likely that the second part will be in the next couple of days. The British press, which has been openly...