Reds players feeling the pain

MANCHESTER United manager David Moyes insists his players are hurting over the club’s present slump.

United head into tonight’s Champions League encounter with Shakhtar Donetsk in the throes of a crisis, following back–to–back home defeats in the Barclays Premier League.
It leaves them ninth in the table, struggling to even qualify for next season’s tournament let alone retain the championship.

Moyes wasn’t even born when the Reds last lost three successive games at Old Trafford in 1962, and if it happens again United will lose top spot in Group ‘A’ and be pitched into a nasty knockout–round clash with one of Europe’s heavyweights.

There have been allegations of a lack of fight – something Moyes doesn’t entirely refute: “The players are hurting because they are used to winning,” he said.