Moyes’s second spell at the London Stadium is confounding popular sentiment at the time of his appointment and possibly his own expectations, but wider lessons are hard to come by
“The game has changed immeasurably in the two decades since Moyes first started,” an idiot wrote in these pages two years ago. “And so in he shuffles, a man who neither improves teams nor greatly degrades them but will simply be there, right until he isn’t. He won’t take you in the wrong direction because he doesn’t take you in any direction.”
As West Ham United sit fourth in the Premier League after a stirring cultural revolution that has transformed the club’s psyche and taken them into Europe, it turns out that one of us had been elevated to a position for which he was grotesquely and demonstrably unqualified, but it wasn’t David Moyes.
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Manchester United need to "go back to basics" and decide whether to back or sack manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, says ex-Manchester City and England defender Micah Richards.
After a humiliating defeat against fierce rivals Liverpool, is Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on the brink of the sack?
The Liverpool forward is the highest-scoring African player in Premier League history after his hat-trick at Old Trafford
“The new KINGS on the block,” wrote Didier Drogba on Twitter in response to a picture of him with Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané. Less than 24 hours after Salah’s scintillating hat-trick at Old Trafford propelled him past Drogba to become the highest-scoring African player in the Premier League, his former Chelsea teammate also retweeted a cartoon in which he places a crown on the Egypt forward’s head.
With Liverpool leading 2-0 against a ragged Manchester United on Sunday and Salah tied with Drogba on 104 goals, there was a sense of inevitability that the big moment would arrive for the player from the small town of Nagrig in the Nile Delta. It was fitting that the assist for the record-breaking goal in the 38th minute came from Guinea’s Naby Keïta, with Salah making it 106 seven minutes later before rounding off the rout by becoming the first visiting player to score a hat-trick at Old Trafford since Real Madrid’s Ronaldo in 2003 and the first in the Premier League.
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Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards discuss the greatest Premier League free-kicks in the latest Match of The Day: Top 10 podcast.
Police say no further action will be taken after a banner displayed by Crystal Palace fans targeted the Saudi Arabian-led takeover of Newcastle United.
Nuno seems scared of his Spurs bench, Manchester United players must stand up and Joshua King haunts Goodison Park
Substitutions have been permitted in English league football since 1965, but maybe nobody told Nuno Espírito Santo. The Tottenham manager has been curiously reluctant to use his well-stocked bench in recent weeks, and even as his side sleepwalked to defeat at West Ham, he waited until the 84th minute to make changes. Even if the likes of Dele Alli and Steven Bergwijn have hardly sparkled of late, a worrying gulf is opening between the first XI and the rest. Meanwhile, Nuno’s continuing stubbornness – “The game was under control,” he explained curtly – is hardly likely to endear him to the fanbase. Jonathan Liew
Match report: West Ham 1-0 Tottenham
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Mohamed Salah stood out on a memorable day for Jürgen Klopp’s side while Harry Maguire had a match to forget
David de Gea The sole United man who did his job. Near post save from Salah was top-class and he was blameless for every goal. 7
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What next for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his Manchester United side suffered one of their worst defeats in the Premier League at home to Liverpool on Sunday.
Who fits like a glove? Who was as cold as ice? And which player is his side's driving force? Find out in Garth Crooks' team of the week.
Ole Gunnar Solskjær said he was at 'rock bottom' after his side's dismal 5-0 defeat by Liverpool at Old Trafford. The hosts were 4-0 down by the break and 5-0 down before the half-time substitute Paul Pogba was sent off for a studs-up tackle on Naby Keita. A hat-trick from Mohamed Salah was the outstanding individual display in what Solskjær said was his worst defeat as United boss.
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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says he did not expect their 5-0 win at Old Trafford and called the result "insane".
Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says he has "come too far" to give up despite overseeing the 5-0 thrashing by Liverpool.
Paul Pogba gets a 1.75 out of 10 rating after being sent off in Manchester United's 5-0 defeat by Liverpool.
Mo Salah scored a hat-trick as Liverpool humiliated a shambolic Manchester United, who were 5-0 down after 50 minutes and had Paul Pogba sent off
Jurgen Klopp’s pre-match thoughts
“Diogo was in outstanding form before the international break and he is training at a very high level. We saw a few things that made us think it would be a good game [to play Konate].
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