Manchester United's shambolic 4-1 defeat at Watford has been eight years in the making and the major fault line comes from the boardroom rather than the manager's hot seat.
Despite being a shrewd commercial operator and affable personality, executive Ed Woodward has managed to screw up nearly every big football decision since being asked to follow David Gill and run the biggest club in the world.
His determination to hold on to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after successive home humiliations against United's biggest rivals Liverpool and Manchester City produced a collapse at Vicarage Road labelled an 'embarrassment' by David de Gea, sole survivor from Sir Alex Ferguson's last title team.