FOOTBALL DAILY: Carrick on United brink | Celtic and Hearts chase Scottish title | Mou back at Madrid?
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Subscribe to the Off the Ball Daily podcast feed right now. Off the Ball's Football Daily. Hello and welcome along to Wednesday's Football Daily. I'm Phil Egan. Coming up today, Manchester United ready to offer Michael Carrick the manager's job. Manchester City look to keep the pressure on Arsenal in the title race. Southampton are into the Championship play-off final but Middlesbrough fume over Spygate. And Celtic and Hearts can set up a winner-takes-all clash in the Scottish Premiership. But first, Manchester United are ready to open talks about extending Michael Carrick's time as manager beyond the end of this season. Formal discussions are expected to start before their final league game of the season against Brighton on Sunday week.
The former United midfielder has won 10 of his 15 matches in charge and has helped them qualify for the Champions League. Since he replaced Ruben Amarum, no team has picked up more points in the Premier League than Manchester United. Carrick started his second spell as interim manager with a 2-0 win over Manchester City in mid-January. He then followed that up with a 3-2 win away to leaders Arsenal, who up until then hadn't lost a game at the Emirates this season. United have also beaten the likes of Liverpool, Chelsea and Aston Villa and are all but guaranteed a third-place finish. Manchester City have to win at home to Crystal Palace to keep their Premier League title hopes alive. If City don't win, Arsenal could wrap up the title next Monday when they play Burnley at the Emirates.
City are five points behind with a game in hand. Pep Guardiola says it's never easy against Palace.
Since Patrick Vieira or Roy Hodgson especially and now Oliver, they have a final, European final. So maybe struggle a little bit in the Premier League with a lot of changes. Maybe they were not consistent but the quality is there. The patent is there and next one.
Guardiola also says he'll never fully trust VAR because decisions are sometimes made like a flip of the coin.
What is the latest news regarding Michael Carrick's future at Manchester United?
He was speaking after West Ham had the late goal disallowed against Arsenal on Sunday.
Always I learn that you have to do it better. Do it better. If you're in that position, do it better because we have to blame ourselves. That's what we have to do because that isn't a coin. And you have to do better, better for yourself. And that is Crystal Palace and focus and focus.
Tonight's game in Manchester kicks off at 8 o'clock. In the race for Premier League promotion last night, Southampton have set up a meeting but hold in the Championship play-off final thanks to a 2-1 extra-time win against Middlesbrough. The clash had an extra edge after the Saints were charged by the EFL for allegedly spying on a Burrell training session before the tie. Emotions were running high afterwards and Southampton boss Tonda Eckert walked out of his post-match press conference.
There obviously is a lot of emotions and it's just a very crucial game and you go down early on. I think it's never easy to then find your way back into the game and I think the performance of the player speaks for itself.
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Meanwhile Middlesbrough boss Kim Helleberg accused Southampton of disgraceful behaviour. Helleberg says it's sad the way the episode has damaged the tie.
It breaks my heart in terms of all those things I believed in and I think that is the thing and I don't care if that's different rules in other countries. I think this is England, I think this is where football is the biggest thing.
It looked like it was heading for a penalty shootout until Northern Ireland midfielder Shea Charles came up with the winning goal in the 116th minute. Ireland international Roy Manning says the Saints had to dig deep to get the win.
Once we got back in the game, we started to get on top and I felt like we often puffed a bit.
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:04
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What is the latest news regarding Michael Carrick's future at Manchester United?
2:04–6:59
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How is Manchester City preparing for their crucial match against Crystal Palace?
6:59–12:02
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What controversy surrounded Southampton's victory over Middlesbrough?
12:02–12:48
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