David Moyes Starts Manchester United Life as a Winner

It was the debut that many budding managers have dreams and nightmares of - managing Manchester United in a league game for the first time, having taken over from the predecessor who was at the job for 27 years.

Indeed, most of this generation of Manchester United fans wouldn't know who Sir Alex Ferguson's predecessor was given that many of them were born in the last 27 years and would have only known one manager in charge.

Therefore, you can imagine the pressure David Moyes was under in the build-up to that first game against Swansea that seemed to drag on and on since he was announced as prophet Elisha to Elijah in May.

Rooney didn't want a reunion with his old boss

A pre-season that was mixed along with all the stories about Rooney's future at the club didn't help abate the pressure on the former Everton manager, but most fans knew that those would be irrelevant come August 17 at 5:30pm.

Indeed, if anything, United appeared to have finally brought out all their guns and cannons for their visit to the Liberty Stadium on Saturday evening.

Swansea are no mugs - now pretty much an established Premier League side with a good manager in Michael Laudrup. They might very well be in the running for getting back-to-back bargains if Wilfred Bony can match Michu's performance last season. They also had already been involved in competitive football courtesy of the Europa League qualifiers.

United though, underlined their status as reigning champions and Robin van Persie underlined his status as probably the best striker at the best club in England with a brace of the highest quality.

Wayne who? Well, Wayne who, came off the bench to remind the Premier League of his qualities and out to prove a point to his team that he does care somewhat for his club, his lovely pass setting up Danny Welbeck for his own brace.

On evidence of this performance, the pressure might be off David Moyes for a while yet if his players can play this well throughout the season with the new manager bedding in.

Of course, the season is long enough not to afford such comforts, and at some stage, David Moyes' managerial mettle will be tested in a big way - maybe more so in Europe rather than in the league.

Moyes v Mourinho in different times

For now though, a tricky fixture was dealt with in a professional and satisfying manner leaving Moyes to look forward to his first home game ever - although that happens to be Chelsea on Monday night and a litmus test right in front of him - a test against the Special One.