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Originally Posted by sherer
guess we have to agree to disagree on this one.
Phil nev has no footballing brain at all. All he does is pass to whoever is standing to his left or right... sometimes even when it's the opposition !!
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Thats what he is there to do. Break up the play and give the ball to the more skillfull players. I don't know any player who doesn't give the ball away sometimes
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Originally Posted by sherer
He's doesn't so much break up play as kick and give fouls away.. Witness the push on Porto last season with 5 mins to go right on the edge of the box that lead to them scoring and knocking us out..
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Yes he gave away a free, but he wasn't to blame for the goal, that was O'Shea and Howard.
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Originally Posted by sherer
Also the Romania game at Euro 2000 where he slide in on a player going nowhere instead of shepherding them to the byline..
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Yeah so he has made mistakes, name me a player who hasn't
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Originally Posted by sherer
All he can really do is foul and square passes.. i'm sure there's plenty of other players in our youth \ reservers who can do the same and more adn have better footballing brains as well.. He's had his chance and not lived up the quality we expect at United
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Sir Alex knows more about football than you or me, he doesn't want P. Neville to leave. He has been picked by successive England managers.