Wednesday, April 17, 2013

On the quiet: Manchester United unsung hero Michael Carrick actually swerves... - Mirror.co.uk

Michael Carrick is happy to remain Manchester Unitedas unsung hero - as long as they continue steadily to win awards. The 31-year-old has appeared as one of Sir Alex Fergusonas most significant players, despite going under the radar while the glory is grabbed by other, more high-profile names,. Only Robin van Persie, with 42 hearings, has figured more for the champions-elect this year - Carrick has performed 41 times, including in most but certainly one of their 32 Premier League games. United fans have recognised the Geordieas suffering price, with a comparing him to Old Trafford legend Paul Scholes: But the England midfielder is happy to allow his baseball do the talking. aIam not just one for selling myself,a said Carrick. aI only enjoy my basketball. aI gauge it on the his response and manager. I am aware myself when Iam playing well, but you canat please everybody. aAs a, if you do things that people away from team want or expect you to do, youare not planning to become successful. aAs it turns out, Iave been here nearly eight years now and been successful. Thatas my main focus and something beyond that is out of my control.a Because joining United from Tottenham for A16million in 2006, Carrick has won four titles, one Champions League, one League Cup and one Club World Cup. The main one competition to elude him - and the majority of Fergusonas recent squad - is the FA Cup, which explains why this seasonas quarter-final defeat to Chelsea was so difficult to just take. aIt hurts,a said Carrick. aIave come close, Iave played in the ultimate and missing, been in semi-finals and, for whatever purpose, it hasnat fallen for us and we havenat been in a position to get it. aIt hurts since this club should really be winning the FA Cup, specifically having had such a period during the last six, seven, eight years. aFor a club like this never to get it over that time frame is criminal. Because not it has been won by many of us it affects the people. aHopefully, we have still got time and energy to get it, whether it be next year or after that. aIt does get mentioned since weare anxious to gain it. Itas what I grew up seeing. The FA Cup was the overall game of the season when I was younger and this kind of . aWeave come close, dropping to Chelsea in the last, but we should go much better than that.a Carrick said Unitedas leave from the Champions League last month stung also, while they had covered Real Madrid both at the Bernabeu and for the very first half at Old Trafford, simply to start to see the tie change and slip away when Nani was controversially sent off. aIt hurts because we desire to win and we have come near to winning it significantly more than we've, in terms of both Champions League finals weave lost,a said Carrick. True sickener: Nani's red sunk United once they were on the way to the semis Alex Livesey aWeave taken lots of stick for that but we were there to be shot at, as we were there in the last. We managed to get to three finals in four years, which reveals weare doing something right. Shock need to get back to those functions. Itas been a long time. Having had that spell of three [finals] in four years, you want to be there again. aHopefully it can be next year. We felt we had a good chance in 2013 and it didnat function for us, for obvious reasons, but weall go again next year.a United get on West Ham at Upton Park on Wednesday - a conquer one of Carrick's former groups can place them within four points of name No.20. The United employer said: amazement have no injuries from Sunday against Stoke. It had been a hardcore game, truly. But there were no injuries and thatas a blessing of course. aWe have a good, strong group. We got 20 players with us to Stoke and these 20 players will go with us again on Wednesday night.a * Listen to the total interview with Michael Carrick from 4pm Wednesday on Drive Time on talkSPORT 1089/1053AM West Pig Jaaskelainen; Demel, Collins, Pogatetz, OaBrien; Diame, OaNeil, Vaz Te, Nolan, Jarvis; Carroll. Manchester United P Gea; Rafael, Ferdinand, Evans, Evra; Carrick, Cleverley; Welbeck, Rooney, Giggs; van Persie.

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