It's one thing taking a chance in League One, rather different in the Championship where you're up against clubs financed by Premier League parachute payments. And Gus had experience as an assistant. PN hasn't.
One thing that has always impressed me about PN is his refusal to get dragged into the Old Trafford old boy thing. At his first press conference at Everton he turned aside all questions about Manchester United and said: 'I'm an Everton player now.' His dedication to the Everton cause was total...
In fairness to Neville, as a Manchester United player he could not have expected that kicking an opponent in the penalty area would lead to a penalty. It certainly wouldn't at Old Trafford ...
"Checked the story"? How little you know about the way the national media work.
All anyone can reasonably say about our next manager - and you may have noticed that, officially at least, there is no current vacancy - is that agents will have been contacting Barber for the last fortnight...
He's okay, he was an impressive captain of Everton, but he has zero experience, unlike Gus, who had been an assistant manager in the lower divisions and the Premier League and in Europe. And if you read the Telegraph piece, it says that Neville COULD be included on a shortlist. So COULD any...