Quote Originally Posted by arabmark View Post
For any decent manager it shouldn't have been the reason for our relegation. He was out of contract in the summer before the season began for starters, so regardless of who was in charge he wouldn't have been at United.

It was Mcnamara's failure to replace Armstrong with anyone half decent that cost us.
100% correct.

Macnamara was a charlatan and in my 46 yrs on this planet our worst ever manager. He rode on the crest of a wave when we were giving teams 4 nearly every game for a while but when our best players were being sold he didn't have a fkn clue what to do next. A decent manager would have been able to stabilise us but the downward spiral that ensued was definitely the catalyst for where we are now.