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Is anyone else starting to like the Scum's old players in their retirement. Maybe like is too strong, respect yeah respect. I think its looking at them relative to today's players. I have more respect for Scholes, Beckham and even Neville, then a lot our current players. In fact most of the current squad are cunts in comparison.

I would advise against watching that documentary about Salford, lest you end up like me.
 
Good point you make there Dantes. I think those lot seem a good bunch. Despised them when they were playing, can't help thinking they're decent guys now.
 
The tipping point for me was hating Neville, absolutely despising him as a player but respecting and even... liking him as a pundit.
United fans feel the same way about Carragher.
 
Everyone is a cunt, regardless of who they support or played for.

We just like our cunts more than their cunts
 
Agreed, don't mind those three. I'd add Roy Keane to the list for hating Ferguson and being extremely entertaining with his serious at all times demeanour.

Giggs is still an arsehole though, Schmeichel Owen is so dull on tv and listening to Rio Ferdinand is equivalent to wearing two yappy little dogs as earrings.
 
What struck me watching the two episodes of 'the class of 92' a few weeks ago was that they just seemed like genuinely normal men. Neville brothers and Scholes featured more than Giggs and Butt and they did across as being really down to earth and grounded and it didn't seem to be all for show.

They came through the ranks at a time when young, aspiring footballers had to clean senior players boots, live in digs, and earn peanuts (in comparison to now) before they made it into the first team. Nowadays young players are treated like royalty from 15 years of age and given ridiculous contracts after a few first team appearances. That's maybe a factor in the difference between players of that era to the ones nowadays.
 
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What struck me watching the two episodes of 'the class of 92' a few weeks ago was that they just seemed like genuinely normal men. Neville brothers and Scholes featured more than Giggs and Butt and they did across as being really down to earth and grounded and it didn't seem to be all for show.

They came through the ranks at a time when young, aspiring footballers had to clean players boots, live in digs, and earn peanuts (in comparison to now) before they made it into the first team. Nowadays young players are treated like royalty from 15 years of age and given ridiculous contracts after a few first team appearances. That's maybe a factor in the difference between players of that era to the ones nowadays.
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Like for the 2nd paragraph. Bunch of spoilt brats today. I simply abhor how much they are paid, it makes a mockery of society.
 
In most cases it was their club rather than them directly that I despised, so I don't find myself liking them more now. The exception is Gary Quasimodo Neville, for whom I did have a special dislike (while still thinking he was very good at what he did) and who, as others have said above and previously, has turned out to be a very good pundit. I can't be bothered hatin' on him any more.
 
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Like for the 2nd paragraph. Bunch of spoilt brats today. I simply abhor how much they are paid, it makes a mockery of society.
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Salaries should be capped at something like £10,000 a week until they are 21. The poor blighters could still have fun on that while reducing the need for rats like Aidy Ward buzzing around youngsters promising them the world as long as they sign up. After 21 if they are still good enough they can whore themselves out for the £millions, but at least let them grow up first.
 
Imagine having to get by on 10k per week!
I remember John Barnes getting that in about 1990 and it caused outrage at the time
 
It's more of a sign of how much we hate modern players when we're throwing respect at United players for being relatively normal and humble.

Having said that, I think the image of the flash modern footballer is often overly portrayed. To me, most of them seem pretty normal guys, TBH. Clubs do their very best to keep players grounded. It doesn't happen all the time, clearly, but the way some people go on you'd think every player was Ronaldo. Fans are guilty of judging players for being a 'flash cunt' for wearing orange boots without really knowing anything about him or his private life.
 
Always remember the time Neville ran the length of the pitch to taunt the Liverpool fans over their late winner. Always remember? Never forget. CUNT!

And as for watching their fucking documentaries. I hope Salford F C get their collective arses kicked off them.
 
Squiggles said:
It's more of a sign of how much we hate modern players when we're throwing respect at United players for being relatively normal and humble.

Having said that, I think the image of the flash modern footballer is often overly portrayed. To me, most of them seem pretty normal guys, TBH. Clubs do their very best to keep players grounded. It doesn't happen all the time, clearly, but the way some people go on you'd think every player was Ronaldo. Fans are guilty of judging players for being a 'flash cunt' for wearing orange boots without really knowing anything about him or his private life.
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I was coming back to Dublin last Monday after the Palace game and Seamus Coleman and Johnny Walters were on the same early morning flight.
They were standing in the queue, not looking to be brought to the top of it and while they were happy to oblige a few kids with autographs and a few older fans with selfies there was no air of entitlement or them being better than the rest, they were just two ordinary lads boarding a flight.
 
I like Gary Neville. Scholes gets on my nerves; more now than when he was playing. Beckham is ok as is Phil Neville, and Nicky Butt suffers from stumpy leg syndrome.
 
The BBC promoted it with a clip of Neville's face as he learned the club had been using a dodgy sky box. Otherwise I would of course have never watched it.
 
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