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In the Seinfeld episode The Opposite, serial loser George Costanza realises his life is a monument to bad choices, his every impulse is wrong and his gut instinct is not to be trusted. Instead, he decides to do the “opposite” of whatever the little George inside him suggests and within days has landed himself a stunning girlfriend, been offered the job of his dreams and moved out of his parents’ house. While the makers of Seinfeld have always insisted that there are no lessons to be learned from their sitcom, George’s decision to override his brain suggests that if your current instincts and habits aren’t getting you the results you want, doing the opposite might well be the only logical path to success. While Football Daily has no wish to go all High Performance on our readers’ collective @ss, this episode of Seinfeld kept springing to mind as we have tried to make sense of Manchester United’s managerial succession plan (or apparent lack thereof) following the dismissal of Ruben Amorim.
It sprang to mind when the club hierarchy elected to put Darren Fletcher in pre-interim charge until a more interim boss could be found. It sprang to mind when Fletcher announced he had only taken the role under advisement from resident Old Trafford spectre, Sir Alex Ferguson. It sprang to mind when it became apparent that the club were considering one of Ole Gunnar Solskjær or Michael Carrick for the bigger interim role and again on Tuesday when it finally came to pass that the Best In Class bozos responsible for an apparently unending litany of downright bad decision-making at Old Trafford since Big Sir Jim Ratcliffe bought a minority stake in the club had decided to appoint the former United midfielder.
