Club remain weirdly in thrall to a 79-year-old man who has not coached in almost a decade when a cultural reset is needed
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It was a few months into David Moyes’s ill-fated reign at
Manchester United, and with results in freefall and the dressing room in mutiny, Patrice Evra decided to go to see the only man he knew who could fix things.
“Boss, you have to help David,” he pleaded with Sir Alex Ferguson on a visit to his home in Cheshire. Ferguson refused. “I’ve given him the biggest chance of his life,” he said. “I think it’s fair that I keep a distance and let him do his
Job.”