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Rod Liddle

David Moyes was a victim of the pomposity of Manchester United

The egos at the club are off the scale

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

I took my youngest son to a football match on Easter Monday. It used to be something I wryly called a ‘treat’ when the kids were younger, but we usually lost in such depressing circumstances each time that I would then feel the need to give them another treat immediately afterwards, to alleviate the misery.

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