Carrick secures Champions League - what are Man Utd waiting for?

"You want to follow him. You want to fight for him. You want to die for him on the pitch. We showed that today." Kobbie Mainoo's assessment of manager Michael Carrick on Sky Sports after Manchester United beat Liverpool 3-2 in the Premier League resonated. It resonated because when Mainoo scored his 77th-minute winner at Old Trafford, the stadium announcer made a point of hailing the homegrown, local-born 21-year-old, who signed his new long-term contract on Thursday. …