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How Solskjaer Can Steady The Ship At Man United: 12-Step Guide

Another soulless defeat, another goalscoring crisis, another injury crisis, another underwhelming performance from De Gea, another abject performance from elder statesmen Young, Matic and Mata, another shaky performance from Lindelof, Ed telling Jonesy to shut up on camera, and Matic bizarrely thinking that 120 passes against a team lying 3rd in the Kazakhstan League is worth bragging about on Twitter. It is just another week in the life of the Manchester United fan. How long must we feel so beaten up and humiliated? Can someone remind me again of the reason why Lukaku, Sanchez, Herrera and Fellaini weren’t replaced this Summer? At the time, we were told that OlĂ© wanted to put his faith in youth, but as I said in my last column, that doesn’t seem to be happening. When Shaw, Pogba and Martial got injured, he brought in Young, Mata and Matic rather than, say, Dalot, Garner and Chong. Luis Van Gaal was playing Axel Tuanzebe as a holding midfielder 4 years ago, and yet Ol...

Mugabe Dies

Former President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has died. Zimbabwe’s founding leader died in a Singapore hospital on Friday morning at the age of 95.