Yeah, I've got to say that it seems strange to me with every passing week that Moyes was the choice of Ferguson.
Ferguson has always, very clearly, learnt from us in the 70's and 80's. When Shanks left we had one of the greatest managers ever take his place. What was it that he changed - in his own words, almost nothing. There were certainly a few things he tweaked but he took the same playing philosophy and simply maintained it or tried to improve it slightly.
Ferguson had the mancs, in several different seasons, playing some of the most frighteningly dominant football I've seen. Not that there was this scintillating, Brazil 1970, performances every week. But they played an almost irresistible, overpowering attacking football that simply terrified most opposition. It was built on having match winners in several positions, dangerous pace on the edges but, most importantly, flair mixed with steel coming right through the centre. The rest of the team was important in that they provided the peripheral distraction and allowed the spine to do it's job - constantly sweep everything before them.
I've watched this manc team on a few occasions this season (not often) and then again yesterday. One thing keeps coming through; this team, under Moyes, is constantly trying to get behind the opposition by going around them. Fergusons teams kept going through their opponents. That approach has proven the most successful approach in English football in history and, you had to think, surely Ferguson was going to bring in someone who would continue that approach. Instead, in one season, Moyes has taken the most successful formula in the English game and made it unrecognizable. The spine of that team now looks as weak as piss.
RVP looks utterly uninterested - remarkably similar to the way Torres looked in the six months leading up to his departure. Evra too looks like he'd rather be anywhere but there. Vidic has already said he's leaving, Rio is thanking his lucky stars that he doesn't have to play anymore. The only one who looks like he gives a rats is Rooney - who knows how long he'll put up with it but he was about the only one who knew what was coming and he was the one who made a big effort to get out before the season even started.
The players in that squad - they can't win the title but with Ferguson there he'd have had them up there somewhere with us and, you can bet your life, they'd have been fired up to take it to us yesterday. That Moyes couldn't even get them up for a game against us at OT says everything you need to know about what he's doing to that club.
Long may it continue.