There was a time, not too long ago, when Michael Carrick was the answer for Manchester United. He seemed to have the answers, too. Now he is stumped in his search for them. “Certainly to get to this point is there’s a lot of questions to find the answers to,” he said.
And this point may be the end point: 16th in the Premier League, 20th in the Champions League, eight games without a win after back-to-back thrashings at the hands of small clubs. Carrick, who had the best record in the Premier League last season after his January appointment, stands on the brink of the sack. Carrick’s regime has crumbled at startling speed, with brutal cruelty to a fundamentally decent man with a genuine affection for the club.
