Moyes moans as luck still out

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However, it appears that is where luck ran out for him and for United. Now they have to earn it back, according to Ferguson’s successor, who will have you believing he is cursed.

When Charlie Adam’s speculative free-kick came off Michael Carrick’s knee and dribbled into the net with David De Gea sprawled on the ground, the United boss could only have thought to himself “not again”.