Michael Carrick
Don’t become too excited over a wild night in Northampton Town
Getting drunk can be fun. Making decisions when you are can later turn out to be not so much. Think waking up...
Three points from the Northampton Town game: Choices to make for Leicester
Coming into the Northampton EFL Cup tilt, there were distinct rumblings of the C word. Three defeats in a row had seen...
Player Ratings: Carrick brilliant but Rooney unsurprisingly poor
Manchester United booked their place in the fourth round of the League Cup with victory over Northampton Town. Jose Mourinho’s men will...
Match Preview: Northampton Town in the League Cup
Kick-off: 19:45 BST Venue: Sixfields Stadium TV: Sky Sports Referee: Stuart Attwell We all thought Manchester United would get back to winning...
Three things…from United’s defeat to Watford
Another day, another dire display from Manchester United in what has been a worrying week indeed. In my prediction column I fancied...
Fallout from the Community Shield could be nuclear for United’s midfield
Steve McManaman and Darren Fletcher are not what I would consider indispensable or irrefutable sources of football analysis. Chronologically speaking, the latter...
The one with a screamer: An early peek at bad Mourinho
There’s a Friends episode which shares its title with this column. Well, the part before the colon, anyway. As for the part...
Musical Chairs–A Manchester United fiction
You will forgive my English, s’il vous plait ? But I must tell you about this, how do you say ?–strange ?–oui,...
Open Warfare: Where does a captain fit in a God’s world?
There’s an old saying: out with the old, in with the new. It’s beginning to look like that may apply to Manchester...
Let’s celebrate, as more LvG misery awaits!
Louis Van Gaal would have been one of the great entertainers of the early twentieth century, had he been around. He could...
United vs FC Midtjylland – “We’re f***ing shit!”
Embed from Getty Images “We’re fucking shit !” That was the chant from travelling reds after another low point on a winter’s...
Tactics Column: Control counts for everything
Manchester United vs Liverpool 12 .09 .2015 Two weeks after the defeat at Swansea and with the international break over United could...