John Giles' All-Time Manchester United XI

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to talk to John Charles. John Alienator night, you're recovering. I'm fine thanks. Anyway, you weren't online last week because we Liverpool fans exercised to think it's fair to say that because of his selection there was a lot of talk about Alexander Arnold, maybe he should have been at right back but I think there was an agreement quite general. These are tough decisions that need to be made, but you've brought on more trolls, you'll pick your all-time Manchester United trickster 11, yeah that's just saying from last week with Alexander.

I think he's a fantastic player, Natan, and maybe in four or five years he can do something different. decision about him, but Sammy came tonight, I mean, I got cravings, you know, they're putting together teams with a lot of great players, but again, the team and whether it's four or five years from now, if you ask me over and over again Throughout my life, that could be different, but that's the way it is, what the team is picking is the team that's there right now or the previous team that you pick right now and you can only pick eleven of them and again, many big buyers, United and this one. it's from 1960, so people like Li Whelan and Duncan Edwards weren't in the mix of this, no, no, I think it's until now that we go back, but it says the rule says 1965, yeah, okay, let's go with the garnets on the goals.

Impala going for Peter Schmeichel was an easy decision, yes I think he has been a brilliant goalkeeper, he was there when they won all the trophies. Nathan, I think he's been the best and probably one of them is certainly one of the best of all time um I think he was a real presence and I mean remember him. I remember him navigating Manchester United time and time again. You know, a goalkeeper like that was priceless to them and for anyone at any time it's hard to think about a goalkeeper even looking. to the current goalkeepers, that he was such a totemic figure like he was built like an absolute tank, I can imagine that for any player and he was so good at getting close to Peter Schmeichel one on one, you know it was scary. daylight out here oh it definitely was he was he was a great presence and a lot of self-confidence.

I think he had a lot of clashes with the right, it came from what I gathered in those particular years there. Nathan, right? He certainly he had a mind of his own and he had a great presence in goalkeeping as obviously a Deborah goalkeeper came in and he's very much the main man at the moment. Look around 60 18, where I guess a lot of this will come from that. won the European Cup, what the hell Stephanie, if they had them around: Michael, well the current goalkeeper, I think he's very, very good Nathan, but I don't think in the last 12 months I've seen Michael make that many mistakes in all his time. career at Manchester United as the current goalkeeper, yes, so, Peter Schmeichel angle, hey, yes, yes, yes, nice, Peters, wait, yes, you know, you started here for three years with the rebound and the target, with reason;

It's been great for the last 12 months or so, you know? he hasn't been himself, he's made a lot of mistakes, so looking back and then at the right back, I've looked for damage here with you, I probably could have picked Denis Irwin, the right back, our left back, yeah, well, that good. was, I mean, his planet at left back, which I think the right side was his best because he was naturally right-footed because Neville played at right back and he could do the job at left back as well as anyone else, I think. . Denis was a great player and obviously played with the number of stars that were on the team at the time.

I don't think he ever got the credit that he deserves all the bikes, don't you know when he got that that the great Manchester United players had done at that particular time, but Denis was a great customer . I never saw him flapping his wings or getting too excited. He did the work. They moved to left back as you say Nathan and he was just as good there, although he is right. but his positional sounds were very good, so I could put him on his right foot most of the time, but in my opinion he was fast, deceptively fast, but in all the big games I saw him in, I never saw him nervous in none of the games. he did his job quietly and efficiently the whole time he never made any force yes I don't think there were two similar players but I'm thinking about our conversation a couple of weeks ago about Paul Medley that you need a certain type of character within. all great teams that just go about their business the right way and do their job seven, eight out of ten every week, yeah that was Dennis, you know he weighed them, well they're naked, that's right, it wasn't a bother exaggerated he didn't give the south a chance the spotlight just went on his jaw i got on with the job win the ball well i said the family is supposed to make a window win the ball and give it to someone in front of them nitin and That's what he did, he didn't do it.

I have seen that full-backs are defenders, sometimes, when they take the ball, they think well. I have to take care a little, be a little smart with the ball, so you know where the defenders usually go. the ball and give it to Claire, but like when I was in the Leeds Don Revie society Norman Hunter Norman Hunter when you win the ball give it to the players who can play well Norman could play, you know, yes, but that was the beginning, get it, give it to him to the forwards, give it to the people on the border and that's what Dennis did.

He never sought the spotlight, he just got on with the job. I thought he was a fantastic player. A great compliment. The left side. The left side. I have Tony. dawn for Iris layers of the two full back positions yes yes a lot of people like Tony go back to my time so many people wouldn't remember Tony but Tony was very similar in temperament to Denis Irwin he did the job quietly . horrible, he's very fast, Nathan we played, you know, he played against Manchester United, they were great years, he was in the Manchester United team when they won, when they won the league in 1964 and then we found out that the two times they won at that time in particular and then in the Champions League championship or in August and in the European Cup at that particular time, and again a bit like then, he is very calm, he stated that great players like Law Best at Charlton did not try seeking the limelight in no way but he really got the job done very quickly deceptively fast Denis used the ball well with no force on him and he wasn't a big boy he was good in the air like Dennis Dennis was also good in the air but you know, Clare, you know I never saw it Someone give Tony Don a run for his money.

You were already a Manchester United player when he arrived at English. Yes, he was someone who you could immediately say was going to make it to the highest level, but it's funny that I played against Tony under-15 at school football? and it wasn't like that, he didn't enter school with the international team Peyton, so while you were on the local farm, he was Stella Maris, no, he played for all the sets of the same bar, the same class, he was saying, at that particular moment, put-put. Tony, yes he wasn't, he just became great players, but at 50th and when he was just under 15, you would never believe he could progress like he did.

He didn't come to England until he was 18. 19. He really played. For Shelbourne, he spent a few years in the League of Ireland. Denis Danny arrived at All Trafford, but joined immediately. You know, he was only in it for a few months before he was able to be on the team. I never got out of it, but. He may be the best kid and all these guys were making the headlines, but Tony's stopwatch work and I certainly think he was the best in England for 10 years, so two Irish players in the two full-back positions, what happens? your two center halves I have tried, yes Sam, yes, and the town of the monument area and at the end of Weber is really in the town if they offend, I thought mm tires for them.

Hey, very solid again, keep up the work. good, very, very good defenders mmm no, real Ferdinand, no, I thought, I thought Village when they played together, I thought Village was the main man, the vision was the man who went for all the headers and Fred and I were very good players, good on the ball, but he was sweeping with a gentleman, you know, he was sugar-coated, the word fit, each of my opinions was doing the hardest job and the most important job and it's like if you look at the shot record corner, it is called a bidder goes from the corner. shots, yes, for Manchester United, be afraid, they once scored with a header, some corner kicks, so they were different.

I think Rio Ferdinand would catch your attention. Modern town, but me, our town was more effective than Rio Ferdinand. Stam only spent three seasons at Manchester United. He won the title in each of the three seasons, he won the Champions League in his first year at the club, obviously enough to make a big impression. I know we didn't choose this team that would ever play together, but we convinced and played together. They are very similar players, oh yes, yes. Ultima is reasonably good on the ball, but the wind will blow out of the house. I think when you see a penny per half hour defender, you know they're going to win, the aggressive ones, will they? the things you want them to do and in this case well it was because they gave a bonus because they penalized him in a corner kick some free kicks it was very good this very good record spam was a very very solid defender you know you want the fan just to defend, I want I mean, I think Ferguson said he made a mistake by letting him go, yes, at that particular moment, I knew Ferguson didn't make many mistakes, but he would always pick the guys who could defend in that particular important position.

He might try a little. I came out with the ball. You know they're gone. I hope he's with the ball. In fact, do it. The control was pretty good, so I would definitely call those two. We need to take a quick break. I don't think we managed to do it. We get to the controversial selections you'll see on John, we're going through Manchester United's all-time eleven and taking you through the midfielders and attackers right after this off the ball with Paddy Power, the biggest football association and SK, plus Of the activities I have listed, there should be no trips to a place within a two kilometer radius of your house for any reason, it is dental, it depends on what we decide to do in the next few days of the week.

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It has great value. Remember, one-container bags are available at your Circle K Dublin store.Cork Waterford and Limerick accept Circle K Express ca1 dei container bags with Paddy Power welcome back to Off the Ball Thursday Nathan with you tonight we're talking to John Giles about his all-time Manchester United Lebanon thinks 5/3 106 we've passed For the defense we already have Peter Schmeichel in the goals Denis Irwin and Tony donated to the two full-backs, the entire pair of Irish full-backs and the manumit and Yap Stan in the center of the defense, let's move on to the midfielders, John and I don't envy you with this because, off the top of my head, you're talking about Bobby.

Charlton Nobby Stiles Bryan Robson Roy Keane Beckham concert skulls no shortage of options in this one who have you gone with I have come with the goals of Paul Roy Keane and Bobby Charlton no Ryan Giggs there is no one to say I have I have I have a list of players with two players in particular that would look so good on the team one was Bryan Robson mmm and the other was rain Wayne Rooney Giggs is not in it Beckham Stoner all these fantastic just read about the guys need mentionedBeckham can turn our gigs into Pallister Bruce Ferdinand uses all the initiatives that Miss Roy found in Dwight Yorke Andy Cole, but particularly Wayne Rooney and Bryan Robson and perhaps particularly even more Bryan Robson.

I think Brian wasn't there in the Atkinson type era any more than The Ferguson era when they were really winning the big trophies, but I played with Bryan Robson at West Brom and I hate that Lee is even a team. I hate to leave Rooney out as a team, but I have to go with those who are there. It's hard to pick one of the other three to leave home too, so yeah, what was it about those three that separated them from the players he barely knows well? I think Spare Goals was the best real midfielder for your player of his time. and I think it was a shame he didn't claim for England because you know Gerrard there and I'm not in the group that needed them and he could do what's called he could do skulls, which was definitely the player who linked up with The Scottish Front He shared the goals but distributed the ball brilliantly.

I thought he was a fantastic player, well you know, we all know the key and Keane was the driver of that particular team. He didn't take nonsense from anyone. Well, the platform comes out when he played there. In my opinion, but Keane was the driving force, he was never satisfied with what the team was doing, how well they were doing it and he himself was doing it, and that's what great players do, they were never satisfied with what what they do and Keane did it in a spectacular way. we got to Bobby Charlton, well I think I told you before the night and Papa John was the best player I played with and he was the best player I played against, he was absolutely brilliant, he could do it on his own, no.

They need me, I played with him in the middle of Mr. Medford didn't need me, I would be in a good position and I think I was going to get it, I wouldn't get it and just when you are about to say offer the other side to Bobby, three or four players have already passed and he is threatening. the goal but whether it's at night and from 40 yards 40 yards scoring 270 goals for Manchester United from midfield is incredible so I think the trio that trained today would take a beating yeah I think you're probably right, son, and I don't know.

If a comparison between players in the national team like this is fair, but if you go between Roy Key, Bryan Robson and Keenan, he replaced Robson as the driving force in that midfield, were they similar players? Keenan Robson, no, not really, now Robson. Ma'am, no, Robson. Robson was the best woman on the ball I've ever met and Nathan could just see the ball and do it, but he didn't see many goals from midfield. You know, he was a goal scorer too and he's great. Winning the ball Keon was a great victory again under the ball and believe that he is one of the great athletes of him.

He was pushing everyone to push himself and people so that great players can be different in different ways and their attributes. They are different and Oscar were different, but they were both great players, but Bryce scored a lot of goals from midfield. Scholz perhaps touched on his England problems and he made many international appearances. Think 66 67 about them. in the end for England, but it was in that period that you say with Jared at Lambert, but they never seem to know what their best team was, despite being called the golden generation, there was always a feeling also that maybe the skill set for scolding was not. properly appreciated with a position name, did you know that?

In my opinion anyway, they always had Gerard and Lampard as midfielders and they used to put Ian in their skulls on the left side or the right side, that wasn't their game there. like, in my opinion, Lampard and he wasn't, and Jared was genuine in the middle for his players, what they used to say about his great goalscorer in midfield, but what they used to say about them at the time they were great , they're going up. end of things, which is true, what you need is to come to an end, you need to begin mmm, I needed and could make a beginning.

Skulls used to connect from Manchester United from back to front. Lampard and Jared couldn't do that. They used to put skulls underneath on the right side in the modern episodes and I think something big would have happened, they wanted them out. Yes, I put ecology and a very played weekend and now for Manchester United, who controls the midfield. Jared. We couldn't control the midfield and Lampard couldn't control the midfield so we couldn't get to the end of things but you have to have a start to get to the end and they know they couldn't, they couldn't do it. a start for either and scalding were those things that made me feel sorry for him in schools because he was too wedged on the left side or the right side instead of being in the middle of the field where he was at his best. a midfield that was for that United team led by Scholz's Alex Ferguson and enthusiastic: incredibly talented players technically and also the way they were both able to drive their team forward, two players you wanted to have on the ball and who would probably They wanted to attack us all the time but they complemented each other in terms of rest, they didn't win the ball as well as the key and with desire they hit the ball and then the key and couldn't, they didn't use the ball as well as Because as I was in the ideal combination, the course, I know he wasn't the mentor, he didn't take it, but the backhand was brilliant on the right side and scored, and Giggs present on the left side is a fantastic side, but between the two. they in the middle of the field actually complemented each other brilliantly Nitin and made it a great team, yes almost maybe it just wasn't flashy enough, you imagine the schools had all the tricks within them when they wanted to. take them out, but he probably played a simpler game because he needed to play well.

He made it look simple, honey, you know, all the great players make it look simple, so go back to positional sense. Maybe you came to a great place of positional sense. had placed him in excellent positions, well, it seemed to say: well, how did he get so much space? Look, time and space are everything on the football field and they were able to create that, so we didn't have to be complicated, you know, when you see. the people in midfield have to be deceptive all the time meaning when they got the upset they weren't in a very good position so he didn't get into trouble to get out of trouble he made it look simple but he made the work and scored his a good amount of goals, the schools, yes, they scored over 150 goals for the United Front, natural believers from the middle of the field, you know, which is great and then, enthusiastic, he could do it.

I would like to say now that the holding midfielder would clean up was a holding midfielder and an attacking player all in one with his energy and his goal and he could win the ball much better than us because when he gives the skulls that's where you get the combination and they would have a big winning combination so just play Keenan's goals in midfield bobby charlton do whatever he wants more or less total desert and I don't mean that in a bad way Bobby Bobby would probably still be at odds between these girls and these guys, in fact, you know Bobby could get with the ball and not have to use them as much, he just did it on his own, that's what I felt, I would probably play with him anyway he didn't need me and they told me everything suffered, ya you know, when you get into budgeting the team in the but when something is aunt but just a static team Oh, simple and quick, well, many times I was played with Bobby, I would make a good decision, but it wasn't simple and quick, but Just when I was about to say, for God's sake, we are more than having Bobby well, he has passed three or four players, Nitin, and he is threatening the goal with each foot for 40 yards, so you couldn't say anything to him.

You don't need me, you know, I think the enthusiasts and the skulls needed each other, but I tried with Billy Bremner, at least we needed each other, we grew up with the other pack, we probably didn't need anyone, yeah, I was just doing it alone, you really wouldn't play better. with the best best played against Clair, he's not the most fun to play, we're in the SE and he's certainly not the most fun on a break, so in our writings, the guy was just brilliant, yeah, you really don't mind you would get away with it in an intimate way.

The bell says he's not going to pass the ball to me, boss, they'll tell you we're leaving, leave, let Bobby do what he wants, let him score, it's gold. I was great, let's get back to the front three down, like listen, you touched some. of them are ruined, I even miss Roy Hughes, Cole Kantner, the best Lauren Aldo, like it's a choice, so which three did you choose? I went for Ronaldo, Dennis, Law and carried better, so there is no Wayne Rooney, their all-time leading scorer. I know. I know a lot about Rooney, I don't think I really thought about Bunny, I thought he was marching towards greatness, Nathan when he injured his knee.

I don't think he really advanced from there, he was very, very good, very, very good, but I don't think you really advanced from there to become one of the greats. There is a longevity compared to both concerts and Wayne Rooney in what not. At Manchester United, Ronaldo was there for what I think was six seasons and at the end he was scoring an incredible amount of gold that he was reaching towards the level that he reached the lane. Madrid, everything depends on what Ronaldo did with the United shirt. They are part of the influence of the way he continued the rest of his career he flourished no I don't know, I would say he did more than his share at United now.

I often criticized him when he was at Manchester United. because I always believed in the night and I was like, when you walk, what friend would you lose the ball, you get it back and now he didn't do that and I thought now this guy isn't Lea McCoy? I thought what I didn't do. I realize that he is the only player I have seen. He knew he could be out of the game for fifteen minutes and I didn't let that bother him. Jona wants to say: I had the patience to wait for his opportunity. Yes, in other words, what he was. he was going to do with scoring goals and he did well when I looked at him and told him a joke, he won't come back, he won't do this, he won't do that, but he ended up on top.

Gordon, God, we know what his scoring record is now, but when I first saw him I thought no, he's too lazy, he's not in the game enough, he's not doing this or that, but the only thing he was interested in and he still What interests him, in my opinion, are Gordon's goals, which is the most important thing in the team, yes. so he was doing the most important things it breaks my attitude oh he's not coming back he's not doing this he's not doing that but obviously I've seen it now you've been playing for a long time and I can see why you didn't I didn't do what I thought should do, which is the way to wait, take your time, be patient and just go crazy, geez, it's hard to be critical of them anyway and I know it was a totally different player, Wayne Rooney, and that.

He also helped create a lot more, but I think Rooney and all his time had United with Ronnie two seasons in which he scored more than 20 goals in the Premier League. Was he a little disinterested? Almost right, he played, you played deeper, hmmm, you know? they liked that Ronaldo stayed on the one-sided wing you are the one who enters the penalty box the most all the time it's great, it's a big dollar, as I say, for the gold, absolutely genius, when it came to that ruin, it was best player in every way, comes in many ways, T pretty, could catch the ball, could make all these glasses, you know, in my opinion, over the years, in fact, Sivir, other, very rarely he scores a goal a night, he usually scores goals, he supports, he scores a lot, what he does In my opinion, he is one of the great players, and now I feel like I didn't believe it at the time, but in Rooney's case I thought that Rooney got a little complacent when he got to a certain age, he hadn't done what he did, he was always very Good, I don't keep advancing until he's great, yeah, right before we found out and he was hired, and that's been hard for He, you know, was a but that's how I felt about him,there was more to him, I think you know that at a certain age, when he was 27 28 years old, I thought he was really moving towards greatness and I didn't fully see it, but he was, but he was a fantastic player and a fantastic player to Manchester United, we're very pressed for time, so I just want a very quick word about your other two selections, Denis Law, who I think we talked about recently and it's quite funny that we picked up on a previous question if you mentioned George Best.

You clearly made a genius, that was a genius, you say, I think he's the most talented guy I've ever seen in my life, Nathan, that includes a mess there, plus a top gift. George Best was the only player who could C run down triple the ball and catch it inside with his right foot and then come back inside with his left foot hmm, he used to jeer, that's how he used to turn defenders inside out. I don't know, he was a genius and he talked about being the most talented player I've ever seen in my life.

I mean, he unfortunately lost his way, George. there's no protection and I feel sorry for them but it's an absolutely brilliant plan, oh no, at one point, for Georgie, it would be better if she could have kept it up longer than she did, but at her best, at her peak, it was Incredible, was he the one? type of player that when you faced them and particularly when you were with Leeds and he was at Manchester United and both teams were at their best, you thought if he is honored today there is literally nothing we can do to stop him. yes but interestingly enough, not very, very rarely did I play well against Lee, we had a lot of knees from Calipari that brought him back, who was very fast, very aggressive and most of the time he kept Georgie down, that was, he just missed it, but it did not. like we were a little bit superior to him, I also put Charlie on my time against trying against me, I didn't turn him on enough against Leeds, but I was just it was a fight, he turned around, we did it. he played well against us at times, but no, no, not in the magic, in the magic way that he could, well John, we're out of time, you're all wrong, yes, I mentioned it and quickly, he's the most dynamic that I have played against or against absolutely one of the greats and today he would be sensational Nathan, okay, so Dennis Law is in that team that Michael supports from Urban Village Tom and he is in midfield, it is Keane Charlton and Skulls and the Ronaldo Law's front three and the best and not so bad bench of substitutes behind the meter at Manchester United John, great stuff as always, we'll talk to you next Thursday, yes, thanks later if you missed a lot of that and I'm sure There will be a lot of debate about it, everything will be fine.

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