DC United 2009: The club that can't stop failing

So, DC United misses the playoffs for the second-consecutive season. Am I surprised? Not really, it's been clear from fairly early on that this team was practically built to swoon down the stretch and swoon it did - winning only two of its last seven matches. That said, missing out on the playoffs on a comedy handball by a festering sore of a player (Fred) in stoppage time was an especially emphatic way of doing it.

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