Gary Neville reveals Manchester United’s bullying tactics back in his day – English Premier League
Gary Neville has come out before Manchester United’s clash against Arsenal on 28th of August, 2011 and revealed that he and his team mates used to get tough with Arsenal in the Gunners’ glory days to get the results
that they needed. Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 Ferguson’s team battled with Arsenal all throughout the mid 1990s as well as the early 2000s for English Premier League title as both the teams had some epic brawls back in the day.
As the new look United and Arsenal prepare to face off each other once again, many pundits have shared their views stating that the fixture itself does not hold as much importance as it did earlier on in the decade when http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429
were vying for trophies right next to Manchester United. Perhaps Arsene Wenger and Arsenal’s biggest achievement will be their unbeaten title win in 2003-2004, a run of epic proportions which came to a grinding halt when Manchester United halted the Gunners
at Old Trafford when the unbeaten tally stood at 49 matches.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gary-Neville-c14447 who was a major part of Manchester United’s success till his retirement last season recently revealed in his book that United were told my Sir Alex Ferguson to get tough with Arsenal in order to win. The veteran full
back wrote in his book that Manchester United were told to let Arsenal know that they were on the ground by sticking in a foot or two during the match.
Neville added that United were told to pressurize Arsenal and challenge them rather than sit back and watch them play which was the key in beating Wenger’s team as Henry and co. did have all the skills in the world but had a soft
centre. The Arsenal team which consisted of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Robert-c31222 Pires reached the UEFA Champions League final of 2006 but were never really able to achieve anything concrete on the European scale of competition as they lost to
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 in Paris.
After that defeat in the UEFA Champions League final in 2006, Arsenal’s team disintegrated as slowly Vieira, Pires and Henry were sold by the Gunners and younger players such as Fabregas and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Robin-van-Persie-c31380 were incorporated into
the first team squad. This summer Arsenal have parted ways with two of their most influential players Cesc Fabregas and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Samir-Nasri-c32360 and have not won a single piece of silverware in the last six years. It has been a tough time for Arsenal and now things might
get more difficult for the Gunners as they prepare to face Manchester United on Sunday, 28th of August, 2011 in yet another English Premier League fixture.
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