After winning everything there was to win, Sir Alex left Manu** as England's most dominant team over a twenty+ year period. However, he did not groom a successor, instead, he anointed and appointed David Moyes who proved to be a failure. Moyes exit was followed by a disturbing display of managerial incompetence in LVG. By comparison, Bill Shankly left Liverpool to Bob Paisley who won 3 European Cups, several league titles and other trophies. Was Fergie therefore more of a failure than Shanks in terms of his succession plan? Just axin'....