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Moyes deserves an apology from Fergie,so do the loyal ManU supporters

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Sir Alex Ferguson needs to apologise to Manchester United fans. And to David Moyes. Back in December I was at White Hart Lane to see Spurs draw 2-2

Sir Alex Ferguson needs to apologise to Manchester United fans. And to David Moyes.

Back in December I was at White Hart Lane to see Spurs draw 2-2 with Manchester United. The result left United eighth but only two points off the top four.

That was the day I had it confirmed to me that Moyes’ approach to the United job was all wrong. He said after the game: ‘The top of the table will sort itself out.’

Sir Alex Ferguson needs to apologise to Manchester United fans. And to David Moyes.

Back in December I was at White Hart Lane to see Spurs draw 2-2 with Manchester United. The result left United eighth but only two points off the top four.

That was the day I had it confirmed to me that Moyes’ approach to the United job was all wrong. He said after the game: ‘The top of the table will sort itself out.’

That sentence told me that Moyes took United’s success, and Ferguson’s achievements, for granted.

He thought it was inevitable United would continue to be successful, and it didn’t require any special work from anyone for the trophies to make their way to the cabinet at Old Trafford.

No, Moyes thought that miraculously the Premier League table would somehow see Manchester United suddenly appear in the top four without anyone having to do anything.

As he said, the table would sort itself out.

What it also told me was that he was inadequately briefed about the job. And that is the fault of one man – Ferguson. Fergie picked Moyes, so Fergie has to take responsibility.

Surely Fergie didn’t tell Moyes that ‘the table would sort itself out’ if United were struggling to make it into the top four by Christmas?

Fergie must have advised him about the players (Moyes hadn’t a clue what his best XI was)?

And what about the staff – didn’t Fergie tell Moyes axing Mike Phelan and Rene Meulensteen and bringing in Steve Round might not go down well with the United squad?

If Fergie did tell Moyes all of this then the fact that Moyes chose to ignore it all tells us he was the wrong pick.

Either way Fergie got it spectacularly wrong.

My view is that I’m not convinced Moyes was prepared adequately by Ferguson prior to getting started at Old Trafford.

To make it worse Fergie even threw in the emotional blackmail trick when he announced to United fans at Old Trafford that it was their ‘job’ to stand by their new manager. So even if United were out of all cups too early, and not even challenging for Champions League qualification, losing home and away to Man City, Liverpool and Everton, losing at home to West Brom and Newcastle, the fans still had to support Moyes?

According to Sir Alex they did, thus implying that if they didn’t support Moyes, they wouldn’t be doing their ‘job’ properly.

Fergie was a brilliant boss. As a football management headhunter he’s useless.

Do the decent thing Sir Alex and apologise. United fans deserve it, and so does Moyes.