Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

How dare you, Gervinho looked magnificent

i was there... the day kit deal transferred from liverpool to arsenal... 4th spot will never be the same again

He's not dead you know

(yet)

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2012/2/12/1329044774475/Kenny-Dalglish-looks-deje-007.jpg

RIP kit deal

So does the next manager at Old Trafford retain Fergie's powers? Or does Fergie time just stop now?

Arsenal have been a pretty big part of the Nike strategy in recent years - this does raise questions about their preëminence in the sportswear market imo.

people are seriously suggesting mike phelan on twitter

Fergie goin upstairs, lol disaster

He spent years doing the post-match interviews, so

Rafa to take over, Ferguson back in by Christmas

That puma deal though

notBigSam ‏@TheBig_Sam 28m
But now it's time to wipe away these tears, and retrieve my legendary CV from Dropbox.

Is it 'pooma' or 'pyooma'?

sportingintelligence @sportingintel
#mufc sources say successor announcement "soon", and "he'll be cut from same cloth as Ferguson and Busby, and believe in youth development"

Xp The latter, but almost imperceptibly so imo.

Moyes, then

cut from same cloth

Tartan?

Moyes is a pretty big gamble imo.

Moyes

Did they run out of cloth

I fear that means Klopp, not Moyes

Though I find it hard to believe they've lined him up already

yeah moyes is a massive gamble. would think that is solely fergie's decision

thought about klopp but "cut from the same cloth" would be stretching it somewhat no

wonder if pep turned them down before bayern, seems an oversight not to have spoken to him if this was in the works

would be lol if moyes got there to find the glazers embarking on a new era of fiscal probity

don't imagine he'd have got the rvp deal greenlighted for instance

David Cameron ‏@David_Cameron 16m
Sir Alex Ferguson’s achievement at #MUFC has been exceptional. Hopefully his retirement will make life a little easier for my team #AVFC

oh fuck off

that would make me hate Villa except i don't believe he really gives a shit

martinez to everton 5/2, can i be bovd to open an account tho

Villa is what the focus group came up with

Knew I should have waited til 2014 before buying an arsenal shirt

I've had DJ Sven and MC Miker G on repeat since talk of Eriksson and Phelan came up. Soundtracking the day perfectly imo, they even did Celebration Rap as a follow up.

Prince William is a Villa fan too I believe. There is some sort of reason Old Etonians support Villa.

Moyes to MUFC to be a scapegoat not allowed to spend any money, just like at Everton but with fan expectations that ruin him

... I point you in the direction of the extended sequence at a Villa match in Henry Green's "Living"... and not for the first time either (xp)

Nostalgia for the pecking order of the 1890s

Good timing by Fergie, it knocks the Queen's Speech off its perch at the top of the headlines. Govan Labour Party will be pleased, brothers

Prince William is a Villa fan too I believe. There is some sort of reason Old Etonians support Villa.

William chose Villa because it was "in the middle of the country"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dugdale_(Aston_Villa_chairman)

^this guy is Cameron's uncle

You can get 20/1 for Laudrup to EFC.

Ah, my Old Etonian theory bites the dust! Don't know what public school Nigel Kennedy went to tho. (xp)

Yehudi Menuin School of Music

Just struck me that there's an entire generation of people for whom Fergie has always been the Man U manager.

Yup, loads of GET INVOLVEDs to that effect

Jol to everton

I don't want to GET INVOLVED in all that. Feeling like a dinosaur because I can remember other United managers and remember Fergie at other clubs.

Mourinho to Utd
Laudrup to Chelsea
Moyes stays at Everton and his cold hard stare gets a fraction wider

"Jose Mourinho has been installed as favourite to take over from Ferguson by bookmakers" says the BBC. Er, which bookies would they be? You can't get better than 3/10 on Moyes. Some sites are 1/8. Jose out at 3 or 4.

Moyes to go out with two defeats, a 7th-place finish and a loop of those four minutes vs Wigan running in his head.

Mick McCarthy back to the epl in some capacity

so not gonna happen

Feeling like a dinosaur because I can remember other United managers and remember Fergie at other clubs.

my induction into football, aged 6, was undertaken not by watching it but by collecting the Panini stickers for the 86-87 season, and memorising all the stats in the book. as such, for me Big Ron was the manager for that season come what may. I was kind of a weird kid