Nicky Butt was always good. I never thought it was co-incidence that England won more games when he played than anyone else...

 

I've always thought he's been pretty c**p to be honest well definitley on the club football level. He was a decent enough player but since he's left Man Utd he's not as good as when he was at Man Utd and I think this is down to the fact that the players around him made him look better than what he actually was.

I've always thought he's been pretty c**p to be honest well definitley on the club football level. He was a decent enough player but since he's left Man Utd he's not as good as when he was at Man Utd and I think this is down to the fact that the players around him made him look better than what he actually was.

 

Yeah thats the point I was making in my post :)

Yeah thats the point I was making in my post :)

 

Yeah I was just agreeing with you on the fact that I think Butt must really have regretted going to Newcastle. :D I mean he had a fair few problems at Man Utd with injuries and everything but now he's just turned into another player that will be labelled as a duff buy thanks to Souness.

Both Butt and Neville are reasonable players but neither ever struck me as world class, Butt just came across to me as a workhorse who was Roy Keane with a much inferior skill level to Keane, Phil Neville struck me as a jack of all trades given the number of positions he could play but a master of none, not a patch on his brother ability wise.

 

I think both players are good mid table team players

Both Butt and Neville are reasonable players but neither ever struck me as world class, Butt just came across to me as a workhorse who was Roy Keane with a much inferior skill level to Keane, Phil Neville struck me as a jack of all trades given the number of positions he could play but a master of none, not a patch on his brother ability wise.

 

I think both players are good mid table team players

 

I don't think Phil Neville was that bad, but he was always gonna be seen as invisible Neville. His brother is a much better a player and I think Phil Neville is too versatile for his own good sometimes but your right that he's non other than a mid table player, as he could never hold is own place in the Man Utd starting IX and I can't see him doing the same at Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs, Liverpool etc etc.

Absolutely, yeah if I had ever turned on teletext to see "Spurs in Butt swoop" "Phil Neville joins Spurs" even when they were playing for Man Utd I would have been very disappointed

Absolutely, yeah if I had ever turned on teletext to see "Spurs in Butt swoop" "Phil Neville joins Spurs" even when they were playing for Man Utd I would have been very disappointed

 

 

man U lost didn't they what a shame. but they won on saturday.