Among those at Old Trafford on Sunday was a manager sacked after his side hit rock bottom. No, not Ruben Amorim. Plymouth’s past and present were watching Manchester United, Miron Muslic the day after his side acquitted themselves well at Manchester City, Wayne Rooney pontificating on his old club. Sacked with Argyle bottom of the Championship and possessing the worst defensive record in the country, a man who once said he wanted to manage Everton or United may be an expert on the gap between ambition and reality.
It has rarely been wider at Old Trafford. “The goal is to win the Premier League,” said Amorim, after Fulham ended United’s participation in the FA Cup. He may have been channelling Project 150, Mission 21 or any other Brailsford-friendly slogan but it was a misstep. Not unreasonably, Rooney suggested he sounded “naïve”.
