Sport: Moyes, the next Man United manager-Fergie

JUST before 4pm yesterday afternoon, a coach carrying a group of Japanese tourists arrived on the forecourt at Old Trafford. At Manchester United, certain things will never change.

Inside, however, other things were changing; more important things. In the Europa Suite — used by United for all their big press conferences — there was a new manager sitting at the top table and, as we know, this hadn’t happened for 27 years.

For David Moyes and the Barclays Premier League champions, the future began on a sunny afternoon in Stretford and Sir Alex Ferguson’s successor had come armed with all the right messages.