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20th Jan 2016

Football fans mercilessly troll Michael Carrick after he misses his train

Tom Victor

We’re not sure why, but it’s endearing when a highly-paid professional footballer takes public transport like us plebs.

They could be swanning around on 14-minute flights or £300 Uber journeys, but instead they’ve decided to do things just like anyone else.

For that reason, when they run for a train and miss it, we’re sympathetic we laugh even harder.

Michael Carrick was the latest victim after lumbering himself with an hour-long wait, and we wish we could say the response was forgiving.

At least a lot of the mockery was aimed at Louis van Gaal, rather than Carrick himself.

Still, the Manchester United man saw the funny side…