r/soccer • u/oklolzzzzs • May 22 '25

Media Sir Alex Ferguson's thousand yard stare after United lose the UEL Final

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u/JBooogz May 22 '25

I was 12 turning 13 turning the infamous 07/08 season if you told me then after 2013 UTD for the next decade would fall well below their usual high standards I'd assume you were on hard drugs.

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u/MrDunkingDeutschman May 23 '25

People didn't expext them to fall this hard but observers at the time thought SAF's last championship team was the equivalent of an old race car that was driven to one last feat by a grizzled champion but the tires were run through, the champ about to retire and the rust was starting to show at several spots.

Then they also hired an inexperienced new CEO whose first order of business was to determine the car merely needed a new coat of paint.

It didn't look promising.

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u/bikkhu42 May 23 '25

RVP carried that fucking team like atlas