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United caller wants Roy Keane; Cundy offers Bryan Robson

talkSPORT's Jamie O'Hara and Jason Cundy field managerial suggestions and supporter frustration after Manchester United's defeat at Chelsea.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 387,366 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (37,610).

"CARRICK'S GONE!" Jamie O'Hara & Jason Cundy REACT to Man Utd's CRUSHING Defeat to Chelsea!

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0:50The hosts criticise Martínez's discipline after his red card against Chelsea.
1:52Carrick praises United supporters for standing by the team despite the defeat.
2:30Spencer argues Carrick was set up to fail and proposes Roy Keane as manager.
4:15Cundy answers the managerial suggestion by offering another former United captain, Bryan Robson.
8:55Cundy asks his phone's voice assistant to identify the Italian manager caller Mike cannot name.
15:05Cundy questions how Jay's proposed boycott of matches and merchandise fits with supporting United.

Jason Cundy ends up asking his phone for help identifying an Italian manager. A Manchester United caller knows the clues, including a Tottenham connection, but cannot quite retrieve the name. It is an unusually roundabout way to discuss who should run a football club.

The talkSPORT phone-in follows United's 2-0 defeat at Chelsea, with Michael Carrick's future quickly becoming the subject. Despite the upload's emphatic wording, the segment debates whether his time is over rather than reporting his departure.

It has drawn about 210,000 views in nine hours, already more than five times the channel's usual full-day audience for a regular video.

Caller Spencer argues that Carrick has been set up to fail, then proposes Roy Keane as the man to restore some authority. Cundy responds by throwing another former United captain, Bryan Robson, into the conversation. The exchange brings out a tension familiar to this particular phone-in: callers want a different future, but the names they reach for belong to United's past.

Carrick's own contribution is gentler. In an audio clip, he says: "The supporters have been absolutely amazing." Around that message, the hosts criticise Lisandro Martínez's dismissal and callers question the club's direction.

O'Hara has a contrasting afternoon elsewhere on the channel. His separate celebration of Tottenham's win over Crystal Palace has also drawn an unusually fast audience, giving talkSPORT both a buoyant Spurs reaction and a much more searching United post-mortem.

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