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Manchester United's defeat against Stoke City might have been good cause for those at Old Trafford to lay low for a couple of days—particularly the flopping midfielders—but Michael Carrick stuck his head above the parapet and on to Twitter to participate in a Q-and-A session.

Using the #AskCarrick hashtag, the England international predictably was subjected to a host of questions that he probably wasn't going to answer:

#mufc's official match programme United Review is interviewing Michael Carrick. Tweet us your questions for the midfielder with #AskCarrick. — Manchester United (@ManUtd) February 3, 2014

And then the fun began:

The death of the Twitter Q&A is imminent. #AskCarrick is brutal. — Emily Clark (@EmilyClark11) February 3, 2014

The focus was mainly on his lack of forward passes, the fact the opening goal for Stoke deflected off him at the weekend and Tom Cleverley:

#askcarrick in what game was your most memorable pass back to your keeper? — Liono (@LOTTC) February 3, 2014

#AskCarrick on a scale of Tom Cleverley to 10, how bad is Ashley Young? — Kishan (@Kishan_11) February 3, 2014

#AskCarrick Seeing as you are incapable of a forward pass - have you considered playing Rugby instead? — Sir Lancelot (@Mr_Ameeen) February 3, 2014

#askcarrick have you tried wearing your kit backwards to see if it will help you pass the ball forward? — arran Lockey (@arranuk) February 3, 2014

How many times has Mata tried to make a run for it since signing? #AskCarrick — Arron Sethi (@arronsethi) February 3, 2014

#AskCarrick Do you get sleepless nights over the current state of the midfield you play in? — Dom. (@dom_whit) February 3, 2014

Hey, Michael, can you please stop scoring own goals & start scoring for us again? #AskCarrick — Ahad Farhan (@aahadrulz) February 3, 2014

@ManUtd Why didn't you block the freekick by your balls? #AskCarrick — How Your Mata Met Me (@RollsReus11) February 3, 2014

#AskCarrick How do you do that trick where you disappear in big games? — Rob (@robbo555) February 3, 2014

#AskCarrick How do you feel knowing 5 years ago you were playing with Ronaldo and Tevez and now you're playing with Cleverly and Nani. — Hassan Sidat (@HassanSidat) February 3, 2014

#AskCarrick Are you regretting agreeing to this Twitter Q&A? — Joe Krishnan (@joekrishnan) February 3, 2014

What makes it a little sadder is that it's not even the first time Carrick has done a Q-and-A on the hashtag. Back in September 2012, the tweets were hardly much kinder: