Gary Neville - lest we forget..

[Neville Kneville]

I think he is pretty good. Compare him to most of the crap out there and he is one of the most unbiased pundits towards us. Yeah he loves the rags but is pretty evenhanded to everyone he even calls them when they are poor. Quinn, mills and collymore seem to love giving us grief and if we beat real Madrid 10-0 would find off the field issues to woman about.

You are mistaking 'unbiased' for 'professional'.

He tries hard to avoid being obviously biased against us & succeeds better than Macpointy, Danny Mills etc.

He cleverly lets Tyler do the one liners. But you can hear the misery in both voices when City are playing well & the avid criticism when not.

He wants us to lose, every week, but is good at keeping it under wraps.

 

[thischarmingmanc]

You are mistaking 'unbiased' for 'professional'.

He tries hard to avoid being obviously biased against us & succeeds better than Macpointy, Danny Mills etc.

He cleverly lets Tyler do the one liners. But you can hear the misery in both voices when City are playing well & the avid criticism when not.

He wants us to lose, every week, but is good at keeping it under wraps.

^^^^ and that's from his own father, no less !!!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

He didn't look happy after that guy at Bournemouth sung songs about him, looked close to tears post match.

Fucking rag ****.

 

[supercity88]

You are mistaking 'unbiased' for 'professional'.

He tries hard to avoid being obviously biased against us & succeeds better than Macpointy, Danny Mills etc.

He cleverly lets Tyler do the one liners. But you can hear the misery in both voices when City are playing well & the avid criticism when not.

He wants us to lose, every week, but is good at keeping it under wraps.

Spot on. It's the same with all of them. Saw that Gerrard and Rio had to predict who would finish in the top 4. Gerrard said United would finish outside of it... surprised? Rio said City.. he would have wanted to say Liverpool too but couldn't as it would be too obvious. They're as biased as we are they just commit to trying to stay as neutral as possible so they keep a job. The real answer to who will finish in the top 4 is "Chelsea and three of Arsenal, Liverpool, City, Spuds and the Rags". Pundits are either; a) former rag or liverpool players who long for the "good old days of 80s dominant liverpool" or "prem dominating rags" and dismiss all others claiming they know best because they once played football or; b) shite former pros that retired early through injury or didn't have the brains to go into management - your Savage's, Jenas', Mills'. Trevor Sinclair has respect for City but he gets stuck down on the touchline to ensure there's not too much pro-City sentiment on the TV. Lampard is very supportive of the club and what we're trying to do so they'll probably encourage him into management!

 

[paulchapo]

I have mixed feelings on him. I loathed him with a passion when he played for the rags and I let him know everytime he was within earshot at a derby, the same as that other c**** Keane. I remember the 3-4 at the swamp and the running down the touchline when Owen scored celebrating in front of us. I also remember him being interviewed prior to the last derby at Maine Road when he said, '' I have never lost a game to City at any level and last game there or not I don't intend for it to happen now.'' Of course we know what happened next......

I admire him, if it is possible to admire anyone from the swamp, for never shying from his views and nailing his colours firmly to the mast. He also stood his ground when a group of Blues confronted him at a train station and wouldn't back down, in spite of being outnumbered.

If I can sum it up it would be a little like this. I spent 16 months on strike in 1988 in the P&O dispute in Dover. I hated all those who scabbed it with a passion, some I considered good friends. After the strike I worked for their rivals, Sealink who were bought out by Stena and by a strange quirk of fate merged with P&O who then bought Stena out. So by default I was now working for P&O again, a prospect I wasn't happy with. For a while they kept us apart but slowly we intermingled which meant some of us who stayed out on strike had to work alongside some of the scabs. We had to be civil and professional or we would have been sacked and slowly we even spoke to some and had a laugh now and then, we had little choice. What I will say is without exception when there was the slightest hint of trouble or confrontation the scabs reverted to type. They would grass people up and do anything to save their own skins or further their own careers.

In short, although we have to listen to Neville now, in a way work alongside him as he covers our games,never, ever forget what he is......a RAG!!

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

I've no problem at all with him.

I say it on all these threads, I'd rather pundits who a) know what they are talking about and b) are honest and frank in their insights than have a complete fakeness(Quinn) or have zero knowledge and a blatant bias(Owen).

Some people just want our own version of Paddy Crerand ffs.

I've no problem with Neville the same way I think rags have no problem with Dunne. They speak sense and are honest in their opinions and more than willing to criticise their former teams whether they support them or not.

To be brutally honest I don't have a problem with most of the ex rags commenting recently. I've seen Ferdinand, Scholes and Neville absolutely tear into their teams and give praise to City and Liverpool despite their bias.

The ones that are really, really bad are all the dippers. Exclude Souness, who really isn't part of their little clique, then look at Carragher,Owen, MacManaman, Hammann, Gerrard etc...truly terrible in their insight and show clear bias in their comments.

Know your enemies lads, because the ex rags aren't them tbh.

 

[Chippy_boy]

I have no idea what Neville is like, never met him!
He is a United fan and played for the club he supported! In his playing days he spoke like a fan which is no crime as that's exactly how we and every other fan of every other team behave. Off camera he probably still acts and speaks like he did when he was playing!
But as a pundit he is very professional and impartial! As long as that continues I have no real problem with him!

Agree completely. He's more objective than pretty much every pundit going and given his background, the fact that he can be so complimentary about us, is a credit to him.

I actually like the bloke - or at least the version we see now.

 

[Dave S]

What is the problem Quinn's got with City? Did he have a bad time with the club or did he leave on bad terms? ?

 

[idahoblues]

Whilst Neville is a Rag piecs of shit, Carragher actually pisses me off more, he's such a self righteous ****, that fucking scouse accent which sounds like he practises all week coughing up phlem. Every word makes my skin crawl, he's so sure by being a Liverpoooool boy he couldn't possibly be wrong about anything, worse than Mchanananananananan. Thought the chanting at Bournemouth was hilarious

 

[kaz7]

Rat boy believes in diving,getting players sent off and do anything you need to do to win,typical rag mentality and he can't walk the walk