As Manchester United face another tortuous rebuild this summer, various figures have been predicting how long this process will take.
Ralf Rangnick, looking enviously at Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool, said last month it could take ‘six years’ to catch up with their rivals.
It seems fitting then that German’s final game comes against Crystal Palace, a team that played a pivotal role in another restructuring at United.
The media narrative throughout the 1990 FA Cup run, which ended in a final versus Palace, was simple. If United failed to win the cup, Alex Ferguson would be sacked.
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