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Howe, Nagelsmann, Pochettino: can anyone end Manchester United’s doom loop?

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Even an elite coach would surely struggle at Old Trafford amid the executive chaos and with an unfit, uneven squad In January 2014, the 13th series of Celebrity Big Brother aired in the UK, the show so popular its run time was extended by five days before a public vote anointed Jim Davidson the winner.

Then, two years later when Brexit happened, people wondered where their tolerant country had gone, lamenting the ephemeral spirit of London 2012 as though the 2011 riots were some kind of fever dream, not a desperate response to decades of structural and institutional racism exacerbated by the cruelty of unnecessary austerity. The truth is that if security is quickly upended, it was built on quicksand to begin with.

Which brings us to Manchester United, easing effortlessly from an uplifting third-place finish to some of the worst football in their history.

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