Wins over Manchester City and Arsenal have breathed life into what was Manchester United’s listless season and raised the prospect of Michael Carrick becoming the permanent manager. Today, they face Fulham at home in a match that, unlike the encounters against their city rivals and the league leaders, they are expected to win. So, in that sense this is the first big test of Carrick’s time in the Old Trafford hotseat – win and the interim manager will have another helpful addition to the ‘he should get the job full time’ arguement, lose and the feel-good factor created by the past two victories will vanish. Victory against Fulham would see Carrick match predecessor Ruben Amorim’s best Premier League run of three successive wins. The coach, however, believes it would be “bang out of order” for United to assume they would win against a side he expects to provide a “big challenge”. Carrick said: “It’s unpredictable, things can happen within a game, but the reaction from the last game, coming back into the training and the …