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#2 Michael Carrick's final bow
Over 700 games and a career spanning nearly two decades, the ever-reliable Michael Carrick is set to hang up his boots at the end of the season and join Jose Mourinho's management team.
Criminally underrated and rarely given the recognition he deserves, Carrick is United's longest serving player and above all a true gentleman of the game who personifies football in the simplest of all manners.
Mourinho confirmed before their match against West Ham midweek that Carrick will start the game against Watford and will be substituted before the end of the match.
And on Sunday, when he wears that captain's armband and leads the team out of that Stretford End tunnel one last time, it will be a poignant occasion for the Old Trafford faithful who will give a fitting send-off to one of the game's best ever servants.
