Raise your hand if, on the day Michael Carrick was confirmed as interim head coach, you predicted that Manchester United would eat Manchester City alive in the derby. In so emphatically beating two of United’s biggest rivals, and two of the Premier League’s best sides, Carrick has laid down a marker. Thinking that Carrick could be the next boss does not mean that he should be, or that you really believe it. It’s just thinking the thinkable, in a way in which picturing Fletcher in charge next season really would have been thinking the unthinkable. Featured image Carl Recine via Getty ImagesThe Peoples Person has been one of the world’s leading Man United news sites for over a decade.