Christmas has come and gone, but Louis van Gaal’s torment continues unabated.
Britain binges on soccer in the week between Christmas and New Year’s like a couple with a new Netflix subscription, often to its detriment. Monday’s games start at 10 a.m., but the biggest matchup, at lunchtime in New York, is essentially a 90-minute, slow-motion train wreck: Manchester United-Chelsea (12:30 p.m. Eastern, NBCSN). Chelsea’s problems this season have been identified, documented and (the Blues hope) solved with a coaching change, but at Manchester United, the struggle is continuing and real. The Red Devils have lost four in a row and are winless in seven, and they have not scored two goals in a league game in more than a month.