Michael Carrick has surely made the Man Utd manager\u2019s job his own; who is the only viable alternative?<\/p>\n
Not many mails this morning but maybe you\u2019re all saving yourselves for the Champions League<\/a>. Mail us at theeditor@football365.com<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Big question<\/p>\n How\u2019re you all getting on reconciling Kompany being sh*t with Burnley then just dandy with Bayern? \u00a0<\/p>\n Only one man should beat Michael Carrick to Man Utd job<\/p>\n It\u2019s not just Gary Neville damning Carrick to an exit, but the rather one-eyed Will Ford match review<\/a>, which amounted to \u201cCarrick hasn\u2019t got United playing like Bayern, Barcelona, PSG or Man City, therefore shouldn\u2019t get the job full time\u2026 all he\u2019s done is play Bruno and Mainoo in their correct positions\u201d.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t get me wrong, United were lucky to have not conceded in the first half, but it was an open cut-and-thrust game and not the one-sided domination Will would have us believe. 3-3 would\u2019ve been a fair half time score, Brentford probably shaded it in the round but part of that surely was game-state driven given how United sat off at 1-0.<\/p>\n Carrick, since he\u2019s come in, has won more points than anyone else in the league<\/a> (2 ahead of Pep who has a game in hand). He\u2019s working with the exact same squad as Amorim. He\u2019s getting a tune out of players who, bar Bruno, are not world class. To be so mealy mouthed to say that, because he\u2019s not got non-world class players playing like a world class team \u2013 in half a season \u2013 is beyond miserly.<\/p>\n Kompany was a failure of a Prem manager with Burnley, but with the right resources has turned Bayern back into a top, top team. Arteta, for all the memes, has been given ample time and resource to turn Arsenal into genuine contenders for titles. Carrick has demonstrated he\u2019s more than capable, more than deserving, of a permanent contract. The only managerial appointment I\u2019d accept besides Carrick is Enrique, and if I\u2019m being greedy I\u2019d want Carrick on his coaching staff to have a final apprenticeship before retaking the reins whenever Enrique moved on. \u00a0<\/p>\n Impoverished Spurs? Really?<\/p>\n Graham Simons says, as an Arsenal fan<\/a>, he hopes Spurs stay up because those in the \u201cimpoverished local area\u201d will have fewer match days. He does realise you have 23 home games in the Championship rather than 19?<\/p>\n Street turnover will increase.<\/p>\n Also, the idea that Spurs fans paying \u00a3900 a season ticket are all from the neighbouring area, and not from nice parts of north London, Hertfordshire and Essex is a reach.<\/p>\n Spurs, as a club, have aggressively used compulsory purchase orders to force out local businesses\/home owners at knock down prices for their own regeneration. They haven\u2019t cared about the \u201cimpoverished local area\u201d for years.<\/p>\n Spurs being relegated isn\u2019t any more or less an economic tragedy than it would be anywhere else, only few other clubs have ever tried to run off to join a European Super League, a brazen attempt to strangle the footballing pyramid.<\/p>\n Something which really might have economically decimated the impoverished local areas of many other footballing towns. READ: Will Spurs take West Ham\u2019s crown as the Premier League\u2019s \u2018best\u2019 relegated team?<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A fool and his explanation\u2026<\/p>\n James, not sure where you write in from<\/a> but if you\u2019re in England surely you\u2019ll know there are tube strikes at the minute and the Jubilee line wasn\u2019t running that evening from the O2. Also, Matt Rife had sold out all nights at the O2, meaning when he was done, twenty thousand some-odd headed for the exits and clogged all manner of egress.<\/p>\n Lastly, I\u2019ll assume you didn\u2019t pen the heading of your message (to call me a fool with my money; F365 does enjoy a good fuel-for-the-fire prodding to stoke its own mailboxers) and as you agreed rightfully on the 3pm blackout stuff which was my point in writing in anyway<\/a>, I want only to explain and evidence my justifiable fiscal reasoning and outlay (unlike any recent outlay by Boston-based owners of the Merseyside club I support).<\/p>\n As you were then. \u00a0<\/p>\n Stop the cheats!<\/p>\n Once again the shithousery of football managers\/teams is ahead of the lawmakers. The tactical \u201cinjury\u201d, especially for the goalkeeper (cramp, my arse!) has now become almost a part of every game, players have admitted that they have passed a message from the manager to the keeper to do this!<\/p>\n So how do we combat it? Danny Murphy is correct on MOTD, the referee has no power to stop it and cannot take a chance that there is not a genuine injury. So my suggestion is that should a keeper require treatment then he should leave the pitch to receive this and the reserve keeper take over for a minimum of 5 or 10 minutes, the \u201cinjured\u201d but now treated keeper can then return.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure this would then lead to a keeper being \u201cinjured \u201d after conceding a penalty so the 7ft 6\u2033 sub comes on, this should not be allowed and the keeper treated as now. Other players should always be required to leave the pitch for treatment and the game continue without them (head injuries excepted?).<\/p>\n More holes than Swiss cheese but something needs to happen, unfortunately it may require words not normally associated with each other, PGMOL and positive action. \u00a0<\/p>\n Thank you Liam Rosenior<\/p>\n Some say that it\u2019s a revolutionary act to bring joy to the world.<\/p>\n In this spirit I would like to thank Liam Rosenior for what I genuinely think might be the funniest thing anyone has ever said.<\/p>\n
Finlay x<\/p>\n
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P.S. the Ole revisionism still boils my p***. The guy was more than vibes, had genuine tactics that reflected the squad United had at the time. Saying appointing Carrick would be making the \u201cOle mistake\u201d again is nonsense on many levels \u2013 not least because Ole wasn\u2019t a mistake.<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n
Eric, Los Angeles CA <\/p>\n
Howard Jones<\/p>\n