Man Utd's Class of 92 sent stark reminder as Man City show their dominance
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There's a motivational quote on a corridor wall of Salford's quaint Moor Lane ground about sticking together and never giving up. Gary Neville and a couple of other graduates from the fabled Class of 92 might need a reminder. Eleven years after Neville, Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and Phil Neville joined forces to buy a club struggling to make ends meet in the Northern Premier League Division One North, half of them decided not to be there for the biggest game in the Ammies’ humble 85-year history.
Giggs was on the bench as part of manager Karl Robinson’s backroom staff. Scholes and Butt were wrapped up tight despite being in the heated seats of the directors’ box. The rest? Nowhere to be seen. Okay, there's not a Manchester United legend born who would have enjoyed watching almost 50,000 City fans doing the Poznan after Jame McAtee scored his team’s seventh goal. But the absence of Neville senior, the spokesman and driving force for a project that continues to haemorrhage £70,000 in losses every week despite now residing in League Two, was a shock.
He took to 'X' after the third-round draw was made to joke that Pep Guardiola would be "getting sacked in the morning." Yet Red Nev had gone skiing, apparently. To be fair, the snow drifts on the hills that surround his hometown of Bury are quite a sight at the moment.
Perhaps it should have been obvious to anyone with a knowledge of Mancunian football that seeing City run riot against the team you own is not the kind of spectacle Neville would enjoy. He still hasn’t forgiven himself for giving a goal away against City in a derby more than 21 years ago.
