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“True, Carrick was one of the senior stars who failed to cope with a Montenegro second-half onslaught in an earlier qualifier”

It must have been tough to take for the 32-year-old, who in the build-up had claimed he had no regrets about agreeing to represent his country again.

True, Carrick was one of the senior stars who failed to cope with a Montenegro second-half onslaught in an earlier qualifier.

But surely Hodgson made a huge howler in ignoring the cool, calm and collected Carrick as the going got tough–- particularly for Wilshere, who the Ukrainians targeted.

Hodgson passed up on picking a pass master and Carrick may be thinking that international retirement was not such a bad shout after all.