United should be brave and gamble on Neville as boss

There’s a few things everyone working in football knows: it’s a results driven business, patience is generally absent and people lose their jobs every week.

But the way David Moyes was sacked this week was so unsavoury it rankled with me. It was not the Manchester United way. It was the Glazer way to conduct business.

Whoever took over from the legendary Alex Ferguson was always going to find it tough. Although I was in favour of Moyes’ appointment, as it seemed a sensible, albeit slightly cautious, approach, he found it apparently difficult managing a club and players of such magnitude. He undoubtedly earned his stripes with his ‘apprenticeships’, at both Preston and the 11 years at Everton, so I genuinely feel for him.