McCarthy must quit easy life at Latics

WITH 10 minutes remaining at Old Trafford and Wigan trailing 5-0, Roberto Martinez could be seen snarling at the officials because they had given a penalty to Park Ji Sung for being tackled, as Martinez indicated, a metre outside the box.

In fact it was a matter of inches and United had already had two solid penalty claims turned down, so Martinez’s fury might have been better directed at the players who had again surrendered to United, continuing their dismal record against Alex Ferguson’s side.

Certainly Martinez’s players do not seem terrified of the prospect of walking off the pitch in defeat, and seemed to have interpreted the harsh sending-off of Conor Sammon in the first half as their get-out clause. The goals kept going in but nobody seemed to be taking it personally.