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Gary Neville has been talking about team building and re-building,
He mentioned something that we tend to forget because it’s something gradual, organic and largely invisible: what players learn from each other. Whats transmitted from the group to the younger players, what’s demanded by a successful team who want to keep on winning.
In the early 2000s, before the arrival of the oligarch at Chelsea, there was a fierce North-South rivalry .
When Arsenal took the title off Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson was always furious and always reacted.
At the time I called that period The Duopoly Years, and Neville explains it this way: “I think just the competitive nature of the managers, the competitive nature of the teams, the players, the individuals, the characters, what was at stake.”
WHAT WAS AT STAKE? A helluva lot!!
The title, the right to say, “We are the champions, you’re just the runners-up.”
“You had a group of people for Arsenal, particularly with that famous back five, who knew what it means to play for Arsenal, and then they transmitted that down to Patrick Vieira and the others who came after that, Thierry Henry, those players, who had been exposed to the real culture of Arsenal by Adams and Keown and Dixon and Winterburn.
“And I think the same thing with ourselves, when we were playing. When we broke into the team when we had Schmeichel, Bruce, Keane and Ince and Hughes, who understood the spirit of fighting on a football pitch. I think that rivalry went through from the Nineties to the 2000s.”
He said both clubs had fantastic teams back then.
“Arsenal were the best domestic team that I ever faced, the ’98 team. The Double-winning team had everything you would want: power, strength, pace – you couldn’t mess them around, they could play good football.”
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