Making an utter bollocks of being Manchester United manager is easier than making a success of it - it takes balls the size of Jupiter and Johnny thinks only one man fits the bill...

Unlike many people who read F365, I well remember the years before Sir Alex Ferguson was manager of Manchester United. It's worth remembering that while the success of the last 20-odd years has delivered lots of money and support to the club, United were always a huge club with huge support going back to the war. Ferguson didn't make them huge, his achievement was to deliver a level of success commensurate with their status in football. For years they had undershot that reputation by some distance.

The new man in charge will inherit the burden of the awesome United reputation and it has crushed many good managers before, including the likes of Dave Sexton, Tommy Docherty and Ron Atkinson, all of whom were at the top of their game when they took the reins. The United job is beyond huge and it always has been. Just as the pressure of playing for United has turned previously good players into useless scuffers, so the manager's job can ruin previously stellar reputations.

For all it may seem that United will always be successful to the generation that been born or grown up under the shadow of United's dominance, it is by no means guaranteed. For nearly 25 years Liverpool bestrode the football world. Their decline seemed not just unlikely but impossible. And yet it happened. It can happen to United, indeed, it's never been more likely than now.

Now is a pivotal moment in United's history, a moment it always knew would come one day and while their recent tradition is of huge success, no-one should take that for granted. Those in charge of the new manager's appointment must realise that the job has broken more men than most. Ferguson has made it look easier than history has shown it to be. Making an utter bollocks of it is easier than making a success of it.

You need talent, vision, motivation and drive and then on top of that, you need balls the size of Jupiter and a rock star ego, not just to manage the team but to front it up in public. This is the nearest thing in football to cock rock. Your balls are out there on the line every week and it's no good being modest or a shrinking violet no matter how good a coach you are, you have to lead the band on stage, thrust your crotch at the audience and scream "do you want some then, c'mon, well do ya?".

There is no hiding place, all eyes are on you all the time, the pressures are beyond huge and you have to love those pressures or it will kill you and kill you quickly as history shows all too clearly.

I firmly believe it would turn David Moyes to ginger dust. United make Everton look like a tiny provincial club. United isn't just the big time, it is the biggest time. United need a rock star manager who knows the sheer planet-sized pressures and embraces them like a friend. It has taken so many good men down in the past and that just makes Ferguson's achievement all the more extraordinary. United need a rock star manager and there should only be one candidate for one of the world's biggest gigs on the football stage. It's Jose time.