The endgame of Louis van Gaal’s brief, benighted tenure at Manchester United bears the eeriest parallels to what Erik ten Hag is enduring now. Every alarm signal from 2016 – the ineffectual signings, the peevish press conferences, the constant search for excuses in the injury list – finds almost an exact replica eight years later. In fact, the ordeals of these two Dutch managers are such mirror images that the duo could yet share the least enviable distinction of all, in finding themselves kicke
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Leinster captain Caelan Doris has urged his side to use the pain of successive European Champions Cup final defeats to fuel their bid for glory against Toulouse on Saturday.Saturday's match will be the first time the European heavyweights have met in the final, although Leinster beat Toulouse in the 2022 and 2023 semi-finals.