Saturday will see David Moyes take on Manchester United for the tenth time since he was sacked by the club and it's the first time he goes into the fixture in the ascendency.
It has been some turnaround. After Moyes was unceremoniously dumped by United less than a year into the unenviable task of replacing Sir Alex Ferguson, it looked as though he had been consigned to the managerial scrapheap after suffering failure after failure.
A brave spell at La Liga side Real Sociedad did not go well, his time at Sunderland was a disaster as he was at the helm as the rickety ship finally took on too much water and went down.
The first relegation of his career. A few months later West Ham United called upon him to prevent them from suffering the same fate, replacing Slaven Bilic.
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