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No Question About That - a Manchester United podcast

He was Sacked in the Morning

No Question About That - a Manchester United podcast

Studio 1878

Sports, Soccer

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2014

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

#188. So there you have it, folks. David Moyes is no more. He is a dead manager, pining for his former job. Sacked by Ed Woodward - rather appropriately - on Monday morning to end 10 months of misery at Old Trafford. Ed & Paul cover this momentous occasion in depth, offering analysis of where it all went wrong for the former Evertonian, and what's next for United. We talk Moyes' failure, Sir Alex Ferguson, Ryan Giggs' appointment, likely permanent candidates, transfer news and take your questions in a packed show!No Question About That is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music and all good podcast apps. We really appreciate your support. Please hit that subscribe button, leave a rating and write us a review! Talk to us on Twitter and Instagram. No Question About That is produced by the award-winning Tom Jenkins.  If you are interested in supporting the show and accessing some cool rewards, check out our crowdfunding page and become a Patron! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And the So, Ed how you doing where were you when you found out?

0:29.8

Very well thanks ding dong the noise has gone. I was in Tokyo actually as I have been for the past week or so

0:36.7

a rant on tour doing it Tokyo styley and although I have to say the decision was made somewhere around, I don't know, where was they flying over at the time about China, I would say.

0:50.0

But I found out when I got into Tokyo and the rumors started spreading and then United officially confirmed it about a day later.

0:55.6

Has there been dancing on the streets of in the Far East? Have you seen a lot of smiling faces in Manchester United shirts around Tokyo?

1:02.4

No, I have seen a lot of pictures of Shinji Kigawa though,

1:05.0

and I've had more than one conversation with taxi drivers

1:08.0

about why Kigawa doesn't play.

1:10.0

Yeah, they should be presumably quite happy. It would be very interesting to see if he's in Ryan Giggs' first lineup.

1:17.0

All right, so let's start at the start. It was Sunday, the Everton game, it was a complete disaster, about 20 minutes into that game.

1:25.4

I tweeted for some reason I feel like this is it.

1:29.2

I feel like if we don't get back into this game he's gone.

1:31.6

That night there was nothing that was all quiet in terms of rumors.

1:35.2

Then the next day around 2 o'clock in the afternoon so that's Easter Bank Holiday Monday.

1:39.2

That was when simultaneously all the journalists from the times I think it was all

1:44.2

tweeted identical rumor basically that this was it and Moyes was gone and then we

1:49.5

found out for sure at 10 past 8 the next morning.

1:53.0

So what do you know about what went on behind the scenes?

1:56.2

As far as I understand, everyone does, I think,

2:00.6

there was a conference call between the main executives on sunday night after the

2:05.3

disaster that was and David Moisie's final and fifty-first game in charge

2:10.3

and so Woodward the Glazer brothers, Joel and Bryan, and Ferguson and Charlton in which they talked about, Moise's suitability for the job or not, and it seemed like they were all of the mind that he was out and decided to not make a call on it then and make a call on the morning.

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