Gary Neville excited watching Manchester United play again
Under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, United have won their last six Premier League games, including a 1-0 win against Tottenham on Sunday
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Your support makes all the difference.Gary Neville has said he is once again excited by the prospect of watching Manchester United play, adding that “no one should ever be allowed” again to shape the club’s attacking-minded “philosophy”.
Under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, United have won their last six Premier League games, including a 1-0 win against Tottenham on Sunday.
United have scored 17 goals since the Norweigan’s arrival in December, in a firm nod to the attacking philosophy for which the club was once famed.
Now, with United back on the up, Neville believes fans are once again excited to watch their team in action at Old Trafford.
“No one should ever be allowed to enter Manchester United’s training ground or Old Trafford ever again to shape their own philosophy,” he said. “That is done.
“Manchester United’s philosophy is so deep and so meaningful, it’s like Barcelona’s and it’s like Ajax’s. At Manchester United you play fast, attacking football in an entertaining way. You bring young players through and give them belief. And you win.
“What Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has done in a month, irrespective of the how the club do this season, has shown Manchester United that.
“I like watching it, that’s it. I want to go to the ground again. About six to eight weeks ago there was a game in midweek and I stayed at home and watched it on television. I didn’t want to go and there were many fans like that.”
But Neville warned against expecting a swift return to the heights scaled under Sir Alex Ferguson, admitting that too many United fans were “spoiled” during the Scot’s illustrious tenure.
“I don’t expect to see winning football as a Manchester United fan every week,” he said. “I don’t expect them to win titles every year. There are a group of fans that grew up in the Sir Alex Ferguson years who have been spoiled. They will think we have to win titles every single year as a football club.
“I grew up in the late Seventies and Eighties when Manchester United never won a title, so for 15 or 16 years of my life, Manchester United were always the pretenders. They were the side that always threatened, but never delivered.
“So, it’s not always about winning, but I was always enthralled by going to watch. What I’ve seen at times in the last five or six years is you can win, you can lose, and you can draw, but you can never be bored watching a football team.”
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