The Gary Neville Appreciation Thread

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Best.

[Viper22 2,418]

I concur.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Gary for president of FA!

[Atlas Lion 1,223]

Big fan of Roy Keane at times as well. Massive cunt, but the bloke has the balls to speak his mind, and i'm a sucker for balls.

[bluesman2610 1,341]

Big fan of Roy Keane at times as well. Massive cunt, but the bloke has the balls to speak his mind, and i'm a sucker for balls.

I assume the pun was intended with this lol

[Rambo 1,729]

Well deserved shout out for Gary. He's one of the few pundits who are objective and call it like they see it. Also very knowledgeable regarding the game of football and makes Jamie Carragher look like an absolute moron which isn't hard to do under any circumstance.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

He isn't the best pundit in the world. But he's honest, he has no particular agendas, and he is the most impartial (obviously he is slighted biased towards Manchester United but that is entirely understandable) of any pundit on English television at the minute.

[DH1988 1,273]

I never miss MNF.

Gary and Carragher are absolutely sublime with the odd crack up - i.e. When they announced Collocini might get the Newcastle job.

[CeleryFC 373]

Only pundit that's always fair and impartial. Smart guy. Only one who defended us against the witch hunt yesterday.

[DYC. 7,542]

Only pundit that's always fair and impartial. Smart guy. Only one who defended us against the witch hunt yesterday.

I've chosen to ignore/avoid the reaction of the media and non-Chelsea fans. How bad is it? They must be loving this.

[CeleryFC 373]

I've chosen to ignore/avoid the reaction of the media and non-Chelsea fans. How bad is it? They must be loving this.

Throwing around words like 'pathetic', 'disgusting', 'disgraceful', 'ugly'. Definitely some harsh words that don't apply to hassling the ref a bit. Maybe if a few more calls went our way we wouldnt feel like that was an appropriate reaction, but the way things are we have to fight for every decision.

Neville though, defended us like a level-headed knight in shining armour.

[didierforever 7,349]

i loved it when neville said last night "chelsea players chose to walk during the match, now they will be walking out of the competition". summed us up last night.

[Special Juan 27,429]

I don't want people defending us, I want our players to stand up and deal with what we have left now. We must now react in the league by not dwelling on this, and contrary to what Neville says or anyone else for that matter it's up to the manager and group to wake the fuck up.

[AndersonBLUE 819]

I've stopped watching/listening to football media for a long time now. I used to buy the papers for the back page and watch the pre match bit on telly before every game. I never do this anymore, I only tune in as soon as kick off starts.

[DH1988 1,273]

Only pundit that's always fair and impartial. Smart guy. Only one who defended us against the witch hunt yesterday.

Can't fault him, I don't agree with Oscar rolling around like he'd stepped on a landmine but its true english teams have been naive in Europe to say the least, exactly as he said.

[CeleryFC 373]

I don't want people defending us, I want our players to stand up and deal with what we have left now. We must now react in the league by not dwelling on this, and contrary to what Neville says or anyone else for that matter it's up to the manager and group to wake the fuck up.

I didn't mean about our performance. Our performance was undeniably awful. But he understood as a player that you will try and influence the ref, and its been a part of the game. I think its important to have a fair perspective like that, instead of a knee-jerk 'Chelsea are disgusting/pathetic/disgraceful', like Carragher who is a hypocrite. And after playing at PSG and failing to get any calls its not surprising when some players are going to make a song and dance when they're tackled.

Regardless I think personally its the language that is being used that stings a little, and I'm happy to have Neville on our side.

[Jase 43,479]

The reaction of Carragher, Souness etc to our supposedly physical approach in the game yesterday was ridiculous and blown out of proportion. You would think that we had murdered someone on the pitch out there with the way they were calling us disgraceful, awful and all that. What we did was hardly anything worse than what other teams had done to us in the previous matches and nothing was said then. Pathetic.

[The Chels 2,502]

Gary was criticising us during commentary but unlike the scousers on the show it wasn't out of bitterness. He seemed genuinely disappointed: he clearly rates us and Mourinho very highly and wants English teams to do well in the CL. Like the rest of us he couldn't believe we were playing with such a lack of intensity. Still he defended us from all the vitriol about crowding around the ref, saying it was nice not to have a naive English side. Oh, and this is great too: