You knew I will do this at some point.
Gary Neville, former Manchester United defender and now a pundit at Sky, has partnered with them for ‘The Overlap’ where he discusses football and Premier League. In recent days, he has been very vocal about Manchester City winning the league and Arsenal not having that winning mentality to push for the title.
Recently, he decided to be the celebration police and went on record to say – ‘It’s too much emotion, too early for Arsenal, to be that desperate and to celebrate that much with half the race still to go, it’s not a good thing. After the Aston Villa game, I can understand how big of a moment it was, but that level of celebration was quite desperate, quite early. There was a lot of celebrations at the end of the game. The emotions are something that’s a negative, it’s not a positive for me in a title race.’ — Well, there’s only 12 games to go, and we are still on top, with 5 point lead to the Manchester City. There are fans invested in teams for 60, 70 years, from the day they were born. They follow it religiously. These fans then celebrate every little achievements of the players on the pitch, support them through thick and thin, sing for the 90min. What if the players gets emotional after a win? It’s not CHESS for fu*k sake.
On a different day, in the 24th game week, he said: ‘I thought City would win the league and United would finish second two or three months ago. To be fair, I’m not going to change my mind on it. I still think City are going to win the league even though Arsenal, the closer it gets… but 14 games is still a long way to go. I still think United will finish second.’ — Well, I saw United losing 7-0 to a mid-table Liverpool. Even if United win their game in hand, we would have a 11 point lead over them, with only 12 games to go. I don’t see how they are going to finish second.
And at the end, this is what I found on Twitter. I am sorry for the screenshot, I usually embed a tweet but I needed to keep it future reference. Tweets can be deleted, screenshots lives forever.
G. Neville, responding to an Arsenal fan –
There are 5 stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Mr Gary was in denial state till last week, he was angry we have been winning for whole 26 weeks, he can’t bargain and I’m pretty sure, is depressed after the Liverpool game. He is getting into the acceptance mode, come the end, I will share his pic in an Arsenal shirt, with ‘Champions’ written all over it.
Right, I hope he takes it as lightly as he thinks others should take what he says. This is a dark art which he has mastered. Hate spreads faster, and he always knew the Arsenal fans are bigger and better than Manchester ones, so he picks up the club and try to keep himself relevant by talking non-sense about it. He can’t do it for City because if you pick up one pebble for each person supporting City, at Chalkwell beach, and keep it in your pocket, you will have the second pocket only half filled.
So yeah, here it is…
We are STILL ON TOP OF THE TABLE. We celebrated our win against Bournemouth like it was our last game on this planet, and we will do it again for every win this season. We sing for whole 90, even when we are behind. It’s just the beginning and IT IS WHAT IT IS, Gary.
If you are reading this, repeat after me – And it’s Arsenal, Arsenal FC! We’re by far the greatest team. The world has ever seen.
TRVL
The lesser of two seriously awful evils in the case of UK domestic politics. A lot of people I meet tend to think I’m a Labour devotee because I’m left wing which always raises a laugh. As Tony said earlier this week when talking about The Who, ‘we won’t get fooled again’.
I remember studying French in the 80s when I think there was a presidential election between Mitterrand and Chirac. They doorstepped some French bloke in a live TV interview to ask about his voting intentions. He replied, ‘Moi je vote pour le con le plus grand’ To save anyone reaching for a dictionary (Me? I’m voting for the biggest cunt’). Very gallic, very direct and honest! Our poor teacher after our disingenuous request for help, described ‘con’ as ‘twat’ but we weren’t persuaded.
Talking of la belle France Tony, any rugby prognostications to go with your sound footy analysis?
He may be a successful manager but Pep is wrong, wrong, wrong about Kyle Walker and his unequivocal support for his over-exposed genitals. 🍒🍆Moreover, it ought to be testing the high morals of the UAE owners.
How would Pep feel if Walker or someone else did it to his wife? Sleazy fuckers/sleazy cheating club.
KP & Killroy – Forgot the rugby: Italy are getting stronger each year where if Wales have put their disputes with the Welsh ‘Old Farts’ running their rugby sorted, I expect a tough game, but Wales will eventually have too much for the spaghetti warriors.
England v France is an altogether different prospect. If Eddie was still manager, I’d have said close France win. Steve Bothwick is new, but very experienced. Being at Twickers I’d say at least one French player will lose his control for a Red card and a couple of sin bins to one of ours.
It will be the team with the least penalties who will win.
There’ll be bite to this game for the coming world cup bragging rights and………… well it’s the old foe of England who once defeated France with 5000 (?) Long Bow Archers at Agincourt who I believe fired one arrow every 5 seconds with deadly accurate armor piercing power at over 200 yards. When you do the maths it’s horrific to compute.
Back then it took an archer 10 years to have the overall physique to be a Long Bowman.
It will be a ferocious game that’s too hard to call, but fantastic to watch especially for the neutrals.
What say you, KP?
It’ll be close, and not the outcome I’ll want, but I think England will still be rusty and France will win.
Praise is due to Andy 1886 for putting the numerous racist tory cunts to the sword on LG this morning. He’s just about the only sensible poster left on there. I always liked his stuff, footballistically and politically.
The others look like the small minded know-nothing reactionaries that they are. Keep on keeping on Andy.
Half of them are Pedro bots/monikers talking to himself. His latest creation is Mikel Conetta more in his other older creation’s style: Champagne Charlie or CC = Carbon Copy or some such logic. He slipped up with his American CC story a few times. When I called them out CC said he was tapping out for good.
Still, it got Pedro the St Louis gig. Helps when your dad is a millionaire from colour me shocked: the advertising industry. 🙂
I can’t complain and I don’t for one minute say that Pedro didn’t put in the hours and make the commitment you need to survive & succeed in America, but knowing a billionaire also helps.
I liked Andy1886, too. Far more grown up than BobN16 in his views.
I skim through there very quickly these days as I do online papers with no intention of posting there again.
Hi KP
You know the old adage, it’s grim up North!
Cardiff have proved they are more than capable of reaching the summit, the issue is sustaining it.
How does Ole fail dismally at Cardiff and then go on to get the United gig for three years???
Do you think the structure and resources are still in place for a realistic promotion charge within the next few years, KP?
I did not see that coming Pool losing 1:0 to bottom dwellers; Bournemouth. In fact B’mouth could be 3 up by now if Odango had his shooting boots on. Good end to end game.
L’pool look like they’ve got a hangover and can’t get out of second gear. If they don’t I see B’mouth getting more goals in the 2nd half.
What a crazy season. Next season will be insane the way things are going.
Scouser’s being given a penalty.
Scouser’s miss the pen – I’m not in any way laughing!
Tony
Agree on this season being crazy although you could argue that’s almost an understatement. I do think next season will settle down ManU will be much better, I can’t see Liverpool and Chelsea both being so bad again, the Spud’s will always be spursy the one big question is what happens to City and the FFP charges?
Hi Herb
Sadly no. Cardiff has an awful owner who makes Hicks and Gillett look competent. The club is in serious debt and the parachute payments have long since disappeared.
It’s a shame because, along with Leeds and Newcastle it’s a potentially big single club city with a massive surrounding catchment area. It’s not inconceivable to imagine there could be close-to-millennium stadium sized crowds with the right backing. The owner, Vincent Tan (from Malaysia) is clueless and pumps in enough money just to keep the club afloat. Its a shitshow that almost make Josh and merkin man look adequate.
Scouser’s miss the pen – I’m not in any way laughing!
lmao
Marc
From the big 6 getting their acts together I agree normal service is likely to resume. The playing field is slowly leveling, though, with more clubs being bought and increasing TV revenues allowing better TWs for the middle clubs.
I hope people bet against my predictions. 🙂
To play 2 consecutive matches, have a positive aggregate score of 7-1, and only have 3 points is the sort of outcome late-Wenger Arsenal used to ‘enjoy’.
KP-good one on the savvy Wenger dig…classic case of Pool shooting their proverbial load versus United and having nothing left in the chamber for the lowly seassiders…let’s hope that we aren’t next to get stung by the bizarro world bug…I would be interested to know how this season has affected gambling houses across the betting globe, maybe I should reach out to Xhaka for the “inside” scoop
Tony-read Crypto first, as it sets the tone for all future endeavours from this particular author
regardless of some of the post-move fanbase backlash, I would have loved to have seen a front 3 with Saka, Marts and Mudryk…he’s creating a lot of havoc playing up the middle against LC today…as an intelligent person never said, it is what it is LOL
How can you go from beating a pretty decent ManU who have been on the up and the week before won the League Cup final by 7 goals to losing to Bournemouth?
Crazy season doesn’t get close.
That’s a shame, KP, I didn’t realise Vincent Tan still owned the club. I remember the PR disaster and massive push back from fans when he changed the famous blue to red! A club whose nickname is ‘The Bluebirds’!
If owners have no intention of competing they should be sued under the Trade Descriptions Act, football is and always has been a competitive sport, and no football club owner should be allowed to drain a football communities hopes and dreams whilst stealing their hard earned money.
I hope the situation changes for you and Cardiff fans in the near future, KP, football is passion, you can’t buy that.
England getting schooled by France 17:0 @ 28 minutes