The Red Devils at heart, the coach who put a team in disarray back on track with simplicity almost seemed like a fallback, a safe choice. Instead…
“If you eat caviar every day, then it’s difficult to go back to sausages,” said Arsene Wenger 28 years ago. He came from an amazing year with Arsenal, he had won the Premier League and the FA Cup, the following year he ran into a month of decline, after a tiring home draw with Middlesbrough he received a salvo of whistles and defended the protesters using one of the cult metaphors in recent football history. Caviar is also a cult, a symbol of luxury, one of those treats that nine times out of ten you indulge in not because you like it but because you can afford it, it fills your palate but not your stomach. Then they often pass off lumpfish eggs as caviar, which look similar to us but are not the same thing, and then sausages make everyone agree. Here, continuing the metaphor, Manchester United have been looking for caviar for 13 years, every time they delude themselves that they have found it, they prepare dinner for us and then end up with their pockets and an empty stomach. What if the solution was sausages?
