{"id":241472,"date":"2026-01-12T19:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/241472\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T19:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:27:18","slug":"odour-of-decay-at-united-persists-and-looks-like-getting-worse-before-it-gets-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/241472\/","title":{"rendered":"Odour of decay at United persists and looks like getting worse before it gets better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nClub are obsessed with holding on to their past glories, it\u2019s time to move on.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'United are paragons of self-love, like one of those financial firms who entered the Crash convinced they were too big to fail.' Photo: PA Wire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SOCCER M (144).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;United are paragons of self-love, like one of those financial firms who entered the Crash convinced they were too big to fail.&#8217; Photo: PA Wire<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There\u2019s a bad smell at Old Trafford but it\u2019s not coming from Alex Ferguson, as Roy Keane has suggested. It\u2019s the odour of decayed glories and rotting illusions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Yesterday\u2019s defeat was Manchester United\u2019s most dispiriting of the season by some distance. If ever a game seemed set up for a big home performance, it was this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Club are obsessed with holding on to their past glories, it\u2019s time to move on. &#8216;United are paragons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49878,61,60,917,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-241472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eamonn-sweeney","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-manchester-united","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}