The reality for all United supporters is that we have only known true success via managerial gods who both warrant shrines for their accomplishments. We de facto aren’t like other clubs because nobody else has all their European Cups and [post war] league titles via 2 managers. We are inherently and intrinsically unique and it has done a number on us as a supporter base - we talk the talk, but the reality is we are questing for The One, who picks up the baton from SAF, who in turn had it passed on from Busby because we know no different. Sentiment to the contrary is a bunch of words with no value.
The only way the collective mindset can change is if we run through a succession of relatively short-term appointments who buck the trend and win the major titles and move on, but the reality is, whoever comes to United and wins either will be given the keys to the city and anointed the next Neo in our matrix.
All of us, past and present are locked in that genjutsu whether knowing or unknowingly; many don’t seem to be aware, so the haughty stance isn’t so much about thinking we’re different; it’s in having zero connective tissue to the historical context of anyone else.
I know some posters really try to drive home the point that we need to get with the times and realities of modern football and the swiftness of the cull, but it’ll take a footballing structure from outside of the club’s dogma to come in and shatter that with total disregard for our past and how and why the pervading conscious and subconscious mindset exists; it’ll never come from the inside out because we are intrinsically woven into a tapestry created before most who post were born, and, by a magnitude of order, augmented by SAF for the rest.
A Di Matteo or Benitez of our own bumbling to a major trophy would do wonders for the collective psyche, for example, letting us know that truly, there is another way and it doesn’t have to be an anointed god who stays forever who can bring success or be a bridge along the way… but this swings back to the above; we’ll give a CL winning manager the keys to the city in a way other major clubs do not.
