On the banks of the Thames, Manchester United found a point they had not earned — a deflected equalizer in the dying seconds sparing them from a third straight defeat at the hands of a Fulham side near the foot of the table. It is the particular cruelty of football that a single late touch can obscure the weight of a season's accumulating failures, offering a manager not vindication but merely more time to face the same questions. Michael Carrick's United are a club caught between the memory of what they were and the uncertainty of what they are becoming, and a draw at Craven Cottage does litt