Gary Neville

Annihilate Now! said:
I'd say at least 75% of fans on here are negative about United, so it's not really that bizarre

After the goals (which he was very positive about by the way) there wasn't that much to be positive about in the first half anyway - second half he constantly said how we should have put the game to bed.
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The bizarre part is him constantly trying to prove he hasn’t got a Utd bias by going so far the other way and being extremely critical and negative a lot of the time. Everyone knows he’s a Utd fan and couldn’t really give a shit. He literally sits next to Carragher every week who’s basically a cheerleader for Liverpool, you’d think after seeing that he’d tone down the negativity a little bit. Of course as fans we can be very critical of our club but with Neville it feels way over the top a lot of the time.
 
ShinjiNinja26 said:
The bizarre part is him constantly trying to prove he hasn’t got a Utd bias by going so far the other way and being extremely critical and negative a lot of the time. Everyone knows he’s a Utd fan and couldn’t really give a shit. He literally sits next to Carragher every week who’s basically a cheerleader for Liverpool, you’d think after seeing that he’d tone down the negativity a little bit.
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To us - Liverpool fans get annoyed at the exact same thing with Carragher though (that he's too negative about them on comms).

Also pretty much all oppo fans thing Nev is incredibly biased towards us - so its really swings and roundabouts stuff.
 
Gabriel Djemba-Bebe said:
How is Carragher encouraged to be a giddy Liverpool fan when he's on commentary but Neville has to be unnecessarily negative towards United?
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It’s worse than that. I’ve noticed Sky puts him on almost all City games when the title race hots up. They don’t care about his bias, it’s encouraged.
Id love to see the stats on that. He’s rarely solo co commentator for the first half of the season then he’s on City every week
 
ShinjiNinja26 said:
Neville is extremely negative off his own back, I don’t think anyone’s telling him to hide his loyalties to Utd. Bizarre guy.
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Exactly, if you listened to Neville you’d think he was a terrible footballer who was stealing a living during his career.

I appreciate self-deprecation but it’s tiring and it’s got to the point now where younger fans have no idea how great he really was.
 
mctrials23 said:
I mean, thats textbook diving if there is no contact.
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There's a slight difference I would say, if you think you're about to get hit you can naturally start going down in anticipation, where as diving is you knowing there is definitely going to be no contact but trying to manufacture it anyway... plus Hojlund didn't appeal or anything like that.

Put it this way, there was no contact obviously, so do you think Hojlund dived?
 
Annihilate Now! said:
There's a slight difference I would say, if you think you're about to get hit you can naturally start going down in anticipation, where as diving is you knowing there is definitely going to be no contact but trying to manufacture it anyway... plus Hojlund didn't appeal or anything like that.

Put it this way, there was no contact obviously, so do you think Hojlund dived?
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Well said.
 
Wish he stops that self depreciating thing about his playing career. It annoys when there are bang average players like Micah Richards suggesting that they were better than Gary Neville at anything.
 
KM said:
Wish he stops that self depreciating thing about his playing career. It annoys when there are bang average players like Micah Richards suggesting that they were better than Gary Neville at anything.
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Always worth a rewatch.... You can always tell when Keane thinks he's just heard an absolute load of shite.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
There's a slight difference I would say, if you think you're about to get hit you can naturally start going down in anticipation, where as diving is you knowing there is definitely going to be no contact but trying to manufacture it anyway... plus Hojlund didn't appeal or anything like that.

Put it this way, there was no contact obviously, so do you think Hojlund dived?
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This is all accurate and no Hojlund didn’t dive or appeal for anything, hence the irritation of Neville saying he was looking for a penalty.
 
Rado_N said:
He specifically said he went down “looking for a penalty”, which is diving and was a bullshit comment.
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I can't remember the "looking for a pen" comment so I'll take your word on that, but he definitely said that he was anticipating the contact, which completely mitigates that statement for me.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
I can't remember the "looking for a pen" comment so I'll take your word on that, but he definitely said that he was anticipating the contact, which completely mitigates that statement for me.
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It doesn’t mitigate anything though; anticipating contact and looking for a penalty is literally the definition of diving.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
There's a slight difference I would say, if you think you're about to get hit you can naturally start going down in anticipation, where as diving is you knowing there is definitely going to be no contact but trying to manufacture it anyway... plus Hojlund didn't appeal or anything like that.

Put it this way, there was no contact obviously, so do you think Hojlund dived?
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I think its a very grey area. Just because a player doesn't claim a foul after going down when there was no contact doesn't mean they weren't trying to cheat. Going down on the assumption of contact is everything that is wrong with the modern game and the way we reward cheating. Thats the brother of "there was contact therefore its a penalty".

I would be very tempted to give players yellows for that sort of thing despite the lack of theatrics.
 
massey said:
The way he was telling casemiro to stop complaining/looking bewildered after that pathetic first booking was a wind up Neville should take a back seat more on united games as his constant over magnifying things brings attention to our play constantly and all the abu's lap it up as some authority or a green light to show twenty replays at half time.
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I was watching the game on US TV and they said the exact same thing so maybe there is something to it
 
KM said:
Wish he stops that self depreciating thing about his playing career. It annoys when there are bang average players like Micah Richards suggesting that they were better than Gary Neville at anything.
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Not only his, United's in general. Every time he talks about past games he was involved in we were getting battered. Anyone would think we were relegation candidates every season. Odd.
 
Frank Grimes said:
Not only his, United's in general. Every time he talks about past games he was involved in we were getting battered. Anyone would think we were relegation candidates every season. Odd.
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And about how we played without “tactics”. It’s all very weird.
 
Annihilate Now! said:


Always worth a rewatch.... You can always tell when Keane thinks he's just heard an absolute load of shite.
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What's happened to Richards? I don't know if I'm just watching less football on TV but it felt like he was everywhere over the past two or three years but I've barely seen him on anything for ages now.
 
JB7 said:
What's happened to Richards? I don't know if I'm just watching less football on TV but it felt like he was everywhere over the past two or three years but I've barely seen him on anything for ages now.
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Don't jinx it please.
 
JB7 said:
What's happened to Richards? I don't know if I'm just watching less football on TV but it felt like he was everywhere over the past two or three years but I've barely seen him on anything for ages now.
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His popularity (if any) was contingent on Keane having anything interesting to say and him guffawing like an idiot at it. Keane has now said everything he has to say = nobody cares about Micah anymore.
 
JB7 said:
What's happened to Richards? I don't know if I'm just watching less football on TV but it felt like he was everywhere over the past two or three years but I've barely seen him on anything for ages now.
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He’s on that Rest is Football podcast now right ?
 
Vernon Philander said:
He’s on that Rest is Football podcast now right ?
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Fair enough, I wasn't suggesting he was dead just that he suddenly wasn't on TV every 5 minutes. I've also never heard of that podcast tbf but thanks for letting me know to avoid it.
 
Can be annoying at times but never understood the hatred from our fan base
 
Chairman Steve said:
I thought he was a Poch fanboy too? Does he know with that statement he slammed the guy who he wanted as United manager all those years?
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No because GNev doesn't really blame Poch. He bypasses him whenever there's blame to be handed out and he just launches grenades at his favourite punching bag, Todd Boehly.
 
I think that Neville isn't a particularly good commentator or pundit, but is great in the relaxed 'Stick to Football' banter and 'Overlap' interview settings.

It's funny that Simon Jordan really seems to be irritated by him though. Jordan criticises him on a regular basis, but Neville never responds (unless he has done and I missed it), which only seems to wind up Jordan more.

I do think that there is jealously there. There is a clear hierarchy, and relatively speaking Jordan is of course a nobody and irrelevance in the football / football media world compared to Neville. They both love the sound of their own voices, and Jordan clearly wishes he had the same reach that Neville does.
 
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