Daniel Taylor: Moyes, Mancini, Martinez and David Beckham




Beyond The Pitch show

Summary: As the Premier League season draws to an end more talking points emerge in the matters of David Moyes and Roberto Mancini as more information and analysis comes to light in terms of one transition to Manchester United and another perplexing end to a Manchester City manager tenure after securing the club its most successful run in many years. To help us through these matters and several others is Daniel Taylor, Chief Football Writer with The Guardian, who helps us break down the David Moyes appointment with greater focus on the bigger picture, whether the glare of Sir Alex Ferguson as both a package for sponsors and a reliable crutch internally makes a great deal more sense longer term and if his hire restores a sense of sanity to the Premier League for the reasons described by Gary Neville of late. Also in focus here is the reason for the early sacking of Roberto Mancini at Manchester City and why it ultimately had to be done not just for reasons once explored during the final days of Mark Hughes, but also because the club needs a new start after a season in which more players regressed in year two than moved ahead. We also discuss the matter of Guy Poyet at Brighton, questions about Roberto Martinez at Wigan and to what his tenure speaks and then we close on the retirement of another football icon, David Beckham, whose legacy inside the game is divided between football and actual football celebrity.