Club remain weirdly in thrall to a 79-year-old man who has not coached in almost a decade when a cultural reset is needed

It was a few months into David Moyes’s ill-fated reign at Manchester United, and with results in freefall and the dressing room in mutiny, Patrice Evra decided to go to see the only man he knew who could fix things.

“Boss, you have to help David,” he pleaded with Sir Alex Ferguson on a visit to his home in Cheshire.

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