After suffering from the sharpened tongue of Bruno Fernandes in midweek, Michael Carrick fired a subtle barb of his own toward Manchester United’s club captain.
When quizzed on why the Portuguese playmaker had been dropped for Sunday’s Premier League clash with Bournemouth, Carrick dismissed any suggestion that this was a result of Fernandes’s outspoken criticism of his tactics. Instead, he claimed this was a “pure football” decision.
