I don’t think the late, great Kurt Cobain, when he penned those words, had in mind the current culture of sacking football managers, but its nonetheless rather appropriate. In fact I don’t think Kurt had ever heard of David Moyes at the time he wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit. I don’t think anyone knew who the pale and insipid Scotsman was unless they supported Dunfermline Athletic or whichever third rate Scottish league team old Moysey was then plying his trade for. (For the record, so as not to offend Dunfermline Athletic; all Scottish football is ‘third rate’).

David Moyes knew he was in trouble. He had been for months. Almost since the start of the season. When the league champions team he adopted (or rather, which adopted him) got off to a nightmare start to the season. Losing at home to both Manchester City and Liverpool is never likely to endear any manager to the crowd at Old Trafford and at that point, really, he was doomed. From then til now its just been about harnessing that anger, collecting evidence to focus all of the team’s shortcomings on one man and waiting for the inevitable coup de gras. Which arrived yesterday morning.

About a day after everyone else in the world seemed to know about it.

Which you would normally put down as ‘the grapevine’, or a minor leak, or an aggressive press. But not when the Glazer family are concerned.

At another time, having a terrible season would be put down to ‘adjustments’, to ‘teething troubles’, to ‘adapting to new ways’. But sadly we don’t live in those times any longer. Patience is zero. There’s just too much money at stake for any considerations of anything other than instant success and gratification.

Bizarrely, the Manchester United share price had been climbing steadily over the last couple of months as expectations grew that Moyes would not last the season. How odd. That losing a manager is not seen as a destabilising event but a positive move forward. Even before they know who the replacement might be. There again Man U. are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, where they know as much about football as they do about making proper tea or Morris Dancing.

And yet that may be naive to assume. Because the Glazers are all about manipulating funds. Its what they do. Their infamous ‘leveraged buyout’ of the club is still the main reason why the richest club in the world is cash-strapped and still massively in debt. But you can’t sack the owners. You couldn’t afford to. Abramovich couldn’t afford to.

News of the sacking yesterday thus raised the share price to an almost record high. A situation in which a lot of people can make a lot of money. Which is why the NYSE are investigating the ‘leak’.

I’d have bitten your arm off if offered David Moyes last year to manage Spurs. And not in a Hannibal Lector way. But he’s deemed insufficient for Manchester United. After just 10 months.

Football is such a hateful game. That’s why I don’t waste my time with it. I’d rather watch the royals at Ayers Rock.

Happy future career David Moyes. You’ll have to eke out that measly 5 million payoff and make it last. What with the price of coal…

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx