Originally Posted by Pogue Mahone

Often known as Murphy's Law (that's racist) and summed up as whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. I like to think of it as the cruel hand of fate, doing it's evil best to ensure that anything involving an element of chance will always come up with an outcome that will piss you off as much as possible.

From the persepctive of a United fan, I reckon Sod's Law will have fecking loads of chances to kick us in the teeth this season.

In no particular order;

• Having been mercilessly slated about his resemblance to a character in an M. Knight Shymalan movie, Lous Saha will go to prove he really is unbreakable (see what I did there?) by staying fit until the end of the season, scoring 20+ goals in the process.

• Having forked out a monstrous fee to replace said fragile(ish) striker - and provide some much-needed cover up front - our new strikeforce will remain, bizarrely fit and available all season long, causing Fergie a massive selection headache and many long (and occasionally, hideously scarred) faces on the bench.

• After almost a season and a half, hoping against hope that Gary "2 weeks" Neville might return to the right-back slot - and provide some much needed balance to our attacking football - he turns out to be a shadow of his former self, with the only effect of his return being to destabilise our back line, strip Rio of the captaincy that was the making of him last season and provide unnecesary competition for the most exciting youngster in our squad this season.

• Guiseppe Rossi will score the winning goal against us in the Champion's League, before going on to be awarded the Pichichi.

• Gerard Pique will play the game of his life, in shutting us out over two legs in the knockout stages of the CL.

• After spending the last couple of years agonising about poor old Rooney being forced to struggle manfully, out of position, we will realise that he's actually just as capable of playing mystifyingly crap through the middle as he ever was on the left-wing.

• Having reeled in the infamous "18-5", through almost two decades of staggeringly effective football, SAF is one title away from knocking Liverpool right off their fucking perch, for good, only for our most bitter rivals to suddenly discover how to play football and complete the best opening set of league results of any team in the history of the Premier League. Ever.

Feel free to add your own below.

This is not intended to be a happy thread.