Marginal gains? More like major shambles… Sir Dave Brailsford presided over Man Utd’s worst season for half a century

IT turns out Manchester United wasn’t the right place for ‘marginal gains’ man Sir Dave Brailsford.

Had Brailsford been the ‘bloody great whopping gains man’, then perhaps it might have been, because United aren’t failing by fine margins.

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Last season they failed to win the title by 42 points, gaining exactly half as many as champions Liverpool.

They failed to qualify for Europe this year.