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Old Trafford and The Perennial Doomsday Clock

  Just like the doomsday clock moves forward and backwards throughout its history, a full blown crisis at Old Trafford is forever looming on the horizon – its just the time span that keeps moving back and forth. This metamorphical clock that hangs over OT, signals the months each incumbent has remaining on the famed managerial hotseat. Only three incumbents had the might and the nobility to freeze time when they were in the hotseat and their surnames read – Mangnall, Busby and Ferguson, for these men won the holy grail for all United Managers – the domestic league title! Even in the post Sir Alex era, there are moments in time where you felt that a managerial tenure was on the verge of collapse in the next few months. These are moments when the focus shifts from the perennial transfer failings to the underperformance of the man in the dugout himself. For David Moyes, it may have been the week when he lost successive home games to Newcastle and Everton. For Van Gaal, it may have...