Gary Neville - Pundit

Devil may care said:
I think the fact SKY have used their platform to allow their employees to trash this garbage means they've already lost the bidding to Amazon or Disney.
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Has to be Disney then...explains Spurs

Acting as the underdogs that will secure glory after suffering setbacks in family and love life along the way. Some players might even lose a pet or some toys too. Finally comes together with Harry Kane scoring the winning goal from a penalty in the last second of the final against biggest rivals Arsenal. (A second that last 10 minutes because they aren't sure if he'll get up to take it after been scythe down in the box. They have to include a series of flashbacks and shots of people looking worried, motivational talking heads floating around and him thinking of his troubles). He gets up and sends it through the net with it leaving the net on fire.

He then realises football isn't everything, doesn't even stay for the trophy. He races from the stadium to win back his true love from Jose, she turns out to be the real reason he left as manager. He then marries her on the same day, while still wearing his full kit. John Terry shows up as his best man , also in his full kit, with Tim Sherwood officiating in his gillet. Film ends with a knowing glance and a wink from Ledley King toward Harry.


A story made for a Disney film.
 
Oranges038 said:
Has to be Disney then...explains Spurs

Acting as the underdogs that will secure glory after suffering setbacks in family and love life along the way. Some players might even lose a pet or some toys too. Finally comes together with Harry Kane scoring the winning goal from a penalty in the last second of the final against biggest rivals Arsenal. (A second that last 10 minutes because they aren't sure if he'll get up to take it after been scythe down in the box. They have to include a series of flashbacks and shots of people looking worried, motivational talking heads floating around and him thinking of his troubles). He gets up and sends it through the net with it leaving the net on fire.

He then realises football isn't everything, doesn't even stay for the trophy. He races from the stadium to win back his true love from Jose, she turns out to be the real reason he left as manager. He then marries her on the same day, while still wearing his full kit. John Terry shows up as his best man , also in his full kit, with Tim Sherwood officiating in his gillet. Film ends with a knowing glance and a wink from Ledley King toward Harry.


A story made for a Disney film.
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:lol: Spurs AKA the new Mighty Ducks!
 
Scholesgoals said:
Its up there with playing scholes on the left wing for england for me.
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Or this...

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ZupZup said:
I don't get the argument that just because Neville has profited hugely from football's commercialisation, that he's a hypocrite for speaking. Just because the direction of travel has been pretty anti-competitive for a while, everyone is entitled to have their own red lines.

This move is worse than anything that's happened since I have been a football fan. There have been plenty of other developments I haven't liked it too, but why criticise someone just for voicing an opinion that for them, this is a step too far. They should be encouraged. Late is still better than never.
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You must be youngish. Football was damaged the moment the Big Five broke away from the Division One to form the Premier League fueled by an upstart called Sky Sports some 30 yes ago.
 
Just watched it and cracked when he said "Tottenham, not bothered by them" :lol: :lol:
 
So what if the ESL is gone through, and Sky has TV right, will he resign?
 
sglowrider said:
You must be youngish. Football was damaged the moment the Big Five broke away from the Division One to form the Premier League fueled by an upstart called Sky Sports some 30 yes ago.
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I am 39... not that old, but I was first a young football supporter when United were in the old First Division. This is much worse to me than the formation of the Premier League.
 
ZupZup said:
I am 39... not that old, but I was first a young football supporter when United were in the old First Division. This is much worse to me than the formation of the Premier League.
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It was fecked since then. The outrage were the same 30yrs ago. This is just an evolution.
If this new league forms, I bet no one will remember any of these comments today.
Humans are just apprehensive or fearful of change.
 
ZupZup said:
I don't get the argument that just because Neville has profited hugely from football's commercialisation, that he's a hypocrite for speaking. Just because the direction of travel has been pretty anti-competitive for a while, everyone is entitled to have their own red lines.

This move is worse than anything that's happened since I have been a football fan. There have been plenty of other developments I haven't liked it too, but why criticise someone just for voicing an opinion that for them, this is a step too far. They should be encouraged. Late is still better than never.
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I get what you mean but eventually there's a line where the message can't be taken seriously when the messenger is so compromised.

Gary's activities with his own club, his hotels, his choice of employer have made it impossible for him to talk of foreign money/corruption/equality.

Don't forget he himself is the appeasing face of far east property developers. That's not even considering who he went to work for at Sky.

We need the counter argument to the super league to come from an untainted voice.
 
Oranges038 said:
A story made for a Disney film.
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Has to be!!!!

Actually you only have to look at the designs of some of the shirts these days to realise, that the day the 'three-ringed circus' that professional football in Europe has threatened to become, is about to dawn!

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The league's' top striker' comes on and plays with a broken arm, (and the compulsory face mask of course, wouldn't want to frighten the kiddies) his team is 3-0 down but he scores four times in the last ten minutes... end of reel....closing sequence hero seen lifting the trophy with one arm.

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sglowrider said:
I don't think that has been finalised. There will be clubs that will be invited based on some domestic league coefficient and whether some gets dropped out is yet to be confirmed.
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Yeah, but I wouldn’t think that would be clubs like Swindon and Barnsley. They weren’t in the PL for long but a great experience for fans seeing all the top clubs.
 
Comet49 said:
Yeah, but I wouldn’t think that would be clubs like Swindon and Barnsley. They weren’t in the PL for long but a great experience for fans seeing all the top clubs.
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My concern will be for the academy. With do much cash inflow, £250-300million will we have the patience for youth development?
 
cedara said:
So what if the ESL is gone through, and Sky has TV right, will he resign?
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I reckon he will. Whatever you say about Gary, he is pretty passionate about football. Even Loserpool fans have agreed with his stance. How he is getting pelters on this forum is beyond me. He is United through and through, more than a lot of the parvenus that post on here that rubbish the club if they lose one game, who rubbish a player if he has one bad game. Some of you think we have a God given right to win every game and that is the attitude that drives the ESL. The ESL is going to be sold to the Far East, to the USA, who have no idea of the history of our clubs.
 
trevor newnham said:
I reckon he will. Whatever you say about Gary, he is pretty passionate about football. Even Loserpool fans have agreed with his stance. How he is getting pelters on this forum is beyond me. He is United through and through, more than a lot of the parvenus that post on here that rubbish the club if they lose one game, who rubbish a player if he has one bad game. Some of you think we have a God given right to win every game and that is the attitude that drives the ESL. The ESL is going to be sold to the Far East, to the USA, who have no idea of the history of our clubs.
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He runs his mouth on Sky and makes himself look a complete hypocrite sometimes.
 
Harry190 said:
Good little puppet for Sky on this one. Him and Rio and Roy Keane all saying the exact same thing, as if reading from a script...hmmm.
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I honestly don't get people like you who are questioning people like Neville, Rio and Keane. They are football people first and foremost. I like to think their opinions on this are genuine. They're just as disgusted as some of us, probably even more.
 
Regardless of circumstances, when will the continued pandering and arselicking of Liverpool and Klopp by him stop? It's beyond embarassing from a Utd legend - sick of seeing it every week.
 
MUFC OK said:
Regardless of circumstances, when will the continued pandering and arselicking of Liverpool and Klopp by him stop? It's beyond embarassing from a Utd legend - sick of seeing it every week.
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I find your reaction to Neville’s comments and the context they’re in, very strange.
 
I'm glad he fessed up to skirting around the Glazer issue himself for the past 15 years
 
M Bison said:
I find your reaction to Neville’s comments and the context they’re in, very strange.
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It's an opinion that I've held for some time. He consistently talks like an ex liverpool player, and that to me is very strange.
 
NinjaZombie said:
I honestly don't get people like you who are questioning people like Neville, Rio and Keane. They are football people first and foremost. I like to think their opinions on this are genuine. They're just as disgusted as some of us, probably even more.
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I think people would have a bit more respect for their opinion if they were more objective. More rounded.

All three are now talking of greed. Not one has ever mentioned players wages(the real driver of all this) and their greed. Which is absurd really. Guys getting £400K a week more and more often now and zero mention of this from pundits.

They can't now start shouting about greed.
 
NinjaZombie said:
I honestly don't get people like you who are questioning people like Neville, Rio and Keane. They are football people first and foremost. I like to think their opinions on this are genuine. They're just as disgusted as some of us, probably even more.
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I harbour no ill will towards them in general. They do however show a remarkable lack of plurality in their statements and how they're talking about it whilst being part of the roster of big networks who have a vested interest in negotiating tv rights, almost as it they're looking at the issue, not through their own research, but rather through what's being fed to them.
 
I think you can appreciate the messaging from the likes of Keane and Neville whilst also thinking Sky/Murdoch are a bunch of cnuts.
 
Marwood said:
I think people would have a bit more respect for their opinion if they were more objective. More rounded.

All three are now talking of greed. Not one has ever mentioned players wages(the real driver of all this) and their greed. Which is absurd really. Guys getting £400K a week more and more often now and zero mention of this from pundits.

They can't now start shouting about greed.
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This is the point. Theyre so strongly opposed to the idea of a closed shop but how much of an open shop is the system currently? West Ham this season or Leicester are the rare exception but there's hardly fair competition. Look at Norwich for example, £100m+ in the PL last year, £35m parachute payments and another £100m+ next season.

All made possible by the ridiculous TV deal for the PL - this is an extension of this.
 
MUFC OK said:
It's an opinion that I've held for some time. He consistently talks like an ex liverpool player, and that to me is very strange.
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His views are a bit broader and deeper rooted than that tonight though, he’s spoken exceptionally well, he always does in my view, but tonight in particular.
 
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