Kieran Shannon: Manchester United and Celtic need humility but is that valued upstairs?

Ruben Amorim and Wilfried Nancy were too rigid and too proud. In that way they mirrored the people who appointed them.

The Manchester United triumvirate of Jim Ratcliffe, Jason Wilcox, and Omar Berrada must — or at least should — know they cannot get any further appointments wrong. Pic: Jacob King/PA Wire.

IT was so bad under Ruben Amorim there wasn’t even a false dawn.

Since David Moyes was moved on at Old Trafford nearly 12 years ago now, anybody else who had been appointed either the permanent manager or head coach of Manchester United enjoyed some stretch where you fleetingly thought that United could be on to something, that the project was going the right way, that at the wheel they had the right man.