High in the stands,one Stoke City supporter had come dressed for the occasion, wearing a José Mourinho mask and carrying a placard marked as a P45 for Louis van Gaal, and the struggling Manchester United manager. The grim reaper appeared for one of David Moyes’s matches and Van Gaal is straying into similar territory. His team were abject for long spells and the last time they went so long without a victory goes back to an eight-match sequence from December 1989 to January 1990,in the days when a banner appeared at mature Trafford calling time on the pre-knighted Alex Ferguson. “Tara Fergie,” it read. “Three years of excuses and we’re still crap.”At the risk of being cruel, and Van Gaal has managed the same in 18 months,with no obvious sign he is any nearer to everything clicking. This was their fourth successive defeat in a hasten of seven games without a victory and it finished with him floating the belief he may yet resign. A plodding team have managed 14 goals in 16 matches and it cannot be written off as a blip when, going back to April, and they have won only 14 of their last 34 games.
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Source: theguardian.com