End of the road for Moyes?

WHAT a difference a space of just 10 months makes. Last May, Manchester United was riding high in the English Premier League.

As the club's long-serving manager Alex Ferguson bowed out of the sport on a high by guiding the swashbuckling Red Devils to a record-breaking 20th league title - winning the crown at a canter, no less - few would have imagined the disaster that was soon to follow.

In all fairness, even the most ardent supporters would not have realistically expected the team to retain the championship under new boss David Moyes, a Scot handpicked for the job by Ferguson himself.

It is the club's sharp decline that has many people flummoxed. United now languishes in seventh spot, way behind leaders …