Michael Carrick was brought to Manchester United in the summer in a bid to improve the lacking midfield from last season. He ended the Premiership season playing for Spurs, after spending most of the year in fourth place, with a spot in the Champions League waiting for them.
Carrick faced his former club, West Ham, and his side needed a win to secure their place in Europe. However, the Spurs camp were hit with a bug on the day of the game, and lost 2-1. Rivals Arsenal beat Wigan 4-2 at home, and claimed the fourth Champions League spot.
Manchester United play West Ham on Sunday, and Carrick confesses this will bring back bad memories of the painful defeat in May.
“I’ll never forget what happened in May,” he said. “We all knew what we could have done and to get into the Champions League for the first time would have been an unbelievable achievement for Tottenham. Everybody had waited so long for it. To be so close and then have it snatched away at the last minute would have been bad enough in any case but the way it happened made it far, far worse. It was a terrible and torrid day for the club because it was such a big occasion. It was a horrible way to miss out and for me that was as bad as it could get.”