Manchester United's season is all but over after their FA Cup exit as the manager-less club lurches from one disaster to the next with no light at the end of the tunnel
Man Utd's hopes of winning silverware are already over
Man Utd's hopes of winning silverware are already over(Image: )
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Manchester United's season is in the gutter. Joining the club's once great reputation. A campaign so embarrassing United are setting records which haven't been broken since World War II.
You have to go back that long to find the last time United had no silverware to compete for at this stage of a season. No FA Cup. No Carabao Cup and no European competition to even begin with. And no chance of United winning the title. Do me a favour.
United haven't come close to winning the biggest domestic prize in more than a decade. Liverpool went 30 years without winning a title - and who would bet against United going on to emulate their bitter rivals? The best United can now hope for is to squeeze and squirm into the European places.
That's how bad its got. One of the supposed biggest clubs on the planet, scavenging for scraps from the rubbish it has overwhelmed by. United have become a parody. A laughing stock of epic proportions. A bang average team with no permanent manager.
One about to welcome another interim one, the sixth of this kind since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013. United have had more caretakers than a school.
If it is to be Michael Carrick, it will be his second stint in this role. He did it before in 2021 after United sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who has also been interviewed about coming back for more pain and punishment, from what has now become the impossible job.
United are now rotten from top to bottom. A club owned by two billionaire brothers from Florida, Joel and Avi Glazer, who have somehow managed to oversee years of dereliction and dysfunction, while still making huge profits. And another bloke, in the shape of Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who has been woefully exposed as incapable of co-owning a business like United.
Ratcliffe used to have the Midas touch in other fields. But when it comes to this footballing monster from the red half of Manchester, whatever Ratcliffe touches turns to the brown stuff. United are trapped in a crippling cocoon of serious mediocrity. Stuck in the past, which is depriving them of a future.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe has got a number of his big decisions wrong
Sir Jim Ratcliffe has got a number of his big decisions wrong(Image: Getty Images)
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A club which has drowned in its own shameless obsession with arrogance and entitlement. The English giants used to rule Europe and dominate domestic football. Other clubs lived in fear of facing them. But fast forward to 2026, and rival teams cannot wait for the chance to rub United's noses in the dirt again.
A team which can't even beat Grimsby Town. A club which now has a captain, in Bruno Fernandes, who cannot wait to leave. He's had enough. While the climate is so humiliating, the squad will once again be cancelling the end of season prize-giving night.
What's the point in staging such an occasion, when no-one is deserving of an award? People used to raise glasses to United to toast their relentless success. But these days there isn't enough alcohol on the planet for those associated with them to be able to suitably drown their sorrows. From a football club to a comedy club - but no-one inside United is laughing.
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