
Explaining his team's latest humiliating loss, Louis van Gaal used an adage to sum up the beleaguered state of Manchester United. ''It is the law of Murphy, I think,'' the bewildered Van Gaal said, recalling a saying that means anything that could go wrong, is going wrong. A 2-1 defeat at little-known FC Midtjylland in front of fewer than 12,000 fans in the Europa League on Thursday was perhaps the low point in Van Gaal's turbulent 20-month tenure at Old Trafford.
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