In 1993 Manchester United had waited for 26 years to win the League Trophy. Legendary Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson was the Savoir by then. He went on to win 12 more EPL trophies only to retire in 2013. Manchester United is on course to make a decade since the last EPL Trophy win.
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The EPL ( English Premier League ) is one of the most competitive leagues in the world. There is not one single club that can be said to be the all-powerful challenger like it is in other leagues. Despite winning a record 20 EPL trophies, Manchester United is making a decade without winning it again.
It should be remembered that Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013 after winning the EPL. It seems the great Scot didn’t leave behind his success manual on how to win the EPL. The Red Devils have experienced turbulent times ever since then.
To make it worse ever since then, their “ noisy neighbors” and arch-rivals Manchester City have won the EPL a record 5 times. Chelsea won it twice. Leicester city surprisingly won the EPL in the 2015/16 season. Liverpool too ended their EPL Trophy drought by winning it during the COVID-19-interrupted 2019/20 season.
Manchester City has won the EPL a record 5 times.
Manchester United’s Journey without EPL Trophy ( 2013 – to date )
Success it is said is not measured by what someone has achieved but by how he/she directs people to achieve the same even when he /she leaves. Based on this saying, one would brand Sir Alex Ferguson as not being successful. After his departure, no one else replicated the great Scots achievements.
In fact at his retirement, Sir Alex Ferguson hand-picked David Moyes as his successor. He thought Moyes would continue with the good work. Sadly, Moyes was sacked in less than a year of his six-year contract.
Sir Alex Ferguson won the last Manchester United EPL Trophy in the 2012/13 season and then retired. Sir Alex Ferguson won the last Manchester United EPL Trophy in the 2012/13 season and then retired.
Manchester United’s woes continued as they had a number of coaches and managers. To be exact, United has had 8 managers ever since Sir Alex Ferguson retired. Five of them are permanent, other interim, and others player-coaches.
Considered among the “Premier League Big Six “, United is yet to prove this in the past decade. The other big six teams to have suffered as much as United is Tottenham. The latter has never won the EPL since its reform in 1992.
Arsenal, who are currently topping the EPL table with 7 points last won the trophy in the 2003/04 season. Chelsea last won it in the 2016/17 campaign.
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