Gary Neville compares football management to boxing

[ishy]

Neville, who recently signed a new one-year contract extension with United, is unsure whether he wants to enter management when he retires.
"Being a football manager reminds me of boxing," he continued.

"Twenty years ago, you would fight the best and get beat, but that didn't matter. You'd have another go.

"These days, boxing is stage-managed. They plot a path to the top because lose one fight and you're seen as a bum. And that's what management feels like.

"One slip and you're a bum. Is that really for me?"

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:lol::lol::lol: You reckon he posts on ESB?

[ghostlybadge]

he is true with what he says in that though

[GazOC]

I think a big problem is that the same fans that want to return to the "old days" where the best fought the best, boxers took risks and a loss wasn't the end of the world are the same ones who pull boxers records apart trying to belittle achievments, call boxers "exposed" when they lose, "shot" after one sub par performance etc.

You can't have it both ways....

[achillesthegreat]

Gary speaks wise words. It's embarassing how so few words can be used to expose boxing.

Shut up and fight is what I say. If you lose, big deal, shut up and fight. Do that for 10 or 15 years, retire and we'll assess your career.

[GazOC]

The problem is a lot of the time its the fans that make the loss the big deal, not the fighters. Its a circular argument, the boxers are scared of losing because the fans are overly critical of losses so they take "safe" fights so then the fans are critcial because the boxers arn't taking risks.....any change will have to come from both sides (and the promoters/ TV companies) not just the fighters.

[nulty]

Fuck Gary Neville the permantly constipated git.

I can't wait until Villa beat his beloved united tomorrow and Liverpool are two points clear at the top.

Most of us have forgot more about boxing than that piss ant will ever know.

[icemax]

Most of us have forgot more about boxing than that piss ant will ever know.

Putting aside your obvious Scouse bias...what is it that he says that you disagree with??

[davidjay]

He's right, and football's the same. Two defeats and the manager's crap, two wins and he's a genius. That's modern life; impatience is the driving force.

[slip&counter]

like gaz said the fans are a problem and you can't have it both ways, but i think the TV networks and especially the promoters are people who caused this problem because they protect fighters feeding them tomato cans padding their records and then going for a big money fight.

for a tv company its better if a fighter has an O in his record and so the promoters put so much importance on it and its counter productive because it comes back to hount them when their fighters lose

in this corner 26-0 in that corner 34-0. i don't care about the records what about the overall

so the promoters, tv networks and spectators are all to blame.

[bored]

Apparently he views Red Issue, a forum for united fans that don't live in China or Korea.

Maybe he is an ESB member :D Maybe it's Rakim.

[nulty]

Putting aside your obvious Scouse bias...what is it that he says that you disagree with??

I just hate the weasel faced git. At least we're top of the league tonight. The mighty o'neils men will do us a favour tommorow and then arsenal will turn them over. We'll go unbeaten and it'll be 19-17 rather than 18-18.

Come on who seriously likes the Nevilles?

[punchdrunkgench]

unfortantly alot of what he says about boxing is right however i feel its abit ironic saying
"Twenty years ago, you would fight the best and get beat, but that didn't matter. You'd have another go.
twenty years ago the top divison of football was interesting b4 the money men took over now its the same few teams every fu**in year which has made it a total bore for anyone outside the so called elite 4, i guess what im saying is times change and you have to roll with it, and one catoery that is as exciting as 20 years ago is the domestic divison maybe people should watch fights not just follow fighters and they would see excitment

[D-MAC]

I just hate the weasel faced git. At least we're top of the league tonight. The mighty o'neils men will do us a favour tommorow and then arsenal will turn them over. We'll go unbeaten and it'll be 19-17 rather than 18-18.

Come on who seriously likes the Nevilles?

To be fair Phil Neville was great in "Steptoe and Son":

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[Danny]

Neville, who recently signed a new one-year contract extension with United, is unsure whether he wants to enter management when he retires.
"Being a football manager reminds me of boxing," he continued.

"Twenty years ago, you would fight the best and get beat, but that didn't matter. You'd have another go.

"These days, boxing is stage-managed. They plot a path to the top because lose one fight and you're seen as a bum. And that's what management feels like.

"One slip and you're a bum. Is that really for me?"

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:lol::lol::lol: You reckon he posts on ESB?

I hope for his sake he doesn't post in here! Football doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as Boxing!

One sport is littered with guys who make sacrifices, give everything they have to reach the top & sometimes even that's not good enough!

The other is full of blokes runnig around & falling over a lot & getting paid obscene amounts of money to do so!

Football will never surpass boxing!

[robpalmer135]

red nev talking some sense