Michael Carrick has revealed his dismay that Manchester United didn't add the FA Cup and Champions League to their march to the Premier League title.
The United midfielder has been in superb form this season, scoring his first Premier League goal of the campaign in the 2-0 win over Stoke.
Despite Sir Alex Ferguson's restablishing a 15-point lead over Manchester City on the way to the Premier League title, Carrick insists a club such as United should be fighting for further honours.
'It hurts because this club should be winning the FA Cup, especially having had such a successful period over the last six, seven, eight years,' he told talkSPORT.
'It hurts the players because not many of us have won it [the FA Cup]. Hopefully, we have still got time to grab it, whether it be next season or after that.
'It does get mentioned [among the players] because we are desperate to win it. It is what I grew up watching. The FA Cup was the game of the season when I was younger and such a special day. We have come close, losing to Chelsea in the final, but we want to go better than that.'
He added: 'It hurts because we want to win and we have come close to winning it more than we have, in terms of the two Champions League finals we have lost.
Dumped out: United lost to Chelsea in the FA Cup quarter-final courtest of a goal from Demba Ba after Cristiano Ronaldo put Real Madrid though in the Champions League (below)
'We have taken a lot of stick for that but we were there to be shot at, we were there in the final. We managed to get to three finals in four years, which shows we are doing something right.
'We want to get back to them occasions. It's been too long. Having had that spell of three [finals] in four years we want to be there again. Hopefully, it can be next year.
'We felt we had a good chance this year and it didn't work for us, for obvious reasons, but we'll go again next year.'
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