One year on after Moyes' sacking - are we a better team now than we were then?

Via the Guardian:

Yesterday, 22nd April 2015, marked the one year anniversary of David Moyes' sacking as United manager. In this piece in the Guardian, Jamie Jackson looks back at the decision to cut-short his six year contract, the enormity of the task that Moyes just couldn't cope with, and how things are looking good for United 12 months on.



The David Moyes mantra since being sacked as Manchester United manager 12 months on Wednesday is that he was not allowed time to succeed. The Scot maintains any chance to discover if he could do the job was thwarted when Ed Woodward, the executive vice‑chairman, tore up his six-year contract on 22 April of last season, 10 months into his tenure.



Yet in doing so Woodward – and the Glazers – were effectively saying to Moyes’s plea for more time: “How soon is now?” The prescient answer might actually have come two months earlier. Because, by the time the trigger was finally pulled, Moyes’s United were in seventh place on 57 points from 34 games, 13 points from a Champions League berth.



The harsh truth is that the alarm bells had been clanging since a dismal spring night in Athens. On 25 February, Moyes’s side lost a Champions League last-16 opening leg 2-0 to Olympiakos in what was the poorest display from a United side of recent memory. This was the moment Moyes was terminally damaged in the eyes of the board.



Read the full article here.