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Neville & Carra react to Man City and Arsenal's dramatic 2-2 draw | 'This rivalry is brewing up!'

The Gary Neville Podcast

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The Heat of Rivalry: Manchester City vs Arsenal Takes Center Stage

This chapter explores the fierce rivalry between Manchester City and Arsenal, focusing on their recent match that showcased intense physicality and competitive spirit. The discussion reflects on how mutual animosity has evolved over time, emphasizing the vital role of rivalries in enhancing the excitement of football.

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just want to mention this in the first half as well, harking back to your days. I know you don't necessarily want to do that, but the type of game this was here, the type of game in terms of its physicality, inside the first five seconds the game was stopped for a collision of bodies right through to the hundredth minute, when they were still having a row. What was that kind of old school? Yeah,
Speaker 2
there's Needle. I mentioned that you can feel, I can't wait for the return fixture. I think there's a real Needle, maybe animosity. And that wasn't there at the start when Michael Arteta first got that job, because Arsenal were in a threat to Manchester City. You know, Manchester City saw them two players those two players helped Arsenal actually challenge Man City a couple of years ago. And I just, that's proven this animosity is going to keep sort of building you think of Manchester United Arsenal, you think of what we had with Chelsea all those years ago. And there is, you can't help it, there's that feeling in your stomach that you... there's a nastiness isn't there, and I think it's needed it. I mean we all say people come and say, I love it, I love them coming together and I see a needle on the bench at the end and that little bit of friction as long as it doesn't completely cross a line, it just adds a little bit of something to the fixture and I think going forward now we've been talking about this fixture before the game saying the games are boring there's maybe something a little bit missing I think we've got it we've had a great game you've had a little bit of needle and hopefully they got each other in a cup competition as well and you see more of it yeah
Speaker 1
that's that's the game that sort of I wanted today we mentioned that alluded to it briefly before the game of a city goal could ignite something and make it a game that has to have to come out and punch and they did come out and punch but I don't buy into this theory mates maybe an old-fashioned theory that you can like each other if you're going for a tie. I just don't think you can, honestly. I know there's respect between Pep Guardiola and Arteta. They've worked together and I know that there'll be admiration of Manchester City's football from Arsenal players and vice versa of what Arsenal are doing. But you can't like each other when you're about to basically commit to this. You know, they've got what you want, and they want what you've got. And it's literally as simple as that. And you can have respect at the end of the season, you can say well done to congratulate the winner, but whilst it's happening, you're in the heat of a battle and you're going for a title with each other. That game was important today I think for us because we want that fight, we want that spirit between the teams. We want the battle on the benches at the end where you can see that there's, I mean Pep Guardiola and Michael Aetetto might like each other but there's definitely some animosity between the benches, no doubt about that, they don't like each other. I think that, I don't know when it was Kyle Walker going over to the guy that he fell out with in the last season. Yeah. There's probably a
Speaker 2
few staff members who've swapped from City to Arsenal going to Michaela Ate. And it's that little bit of friction. And at the end of the day, if Arsenal don't get over Manchester City, no one's going to remember them in years to come. You know, they've got to win something big. They're good enough now to go and win a league title or maybe really go close to a Champions League. And that's why they'll that. The margins are so close now and I'm totally with you. I mean when we were playing Chelsea so often all those years in semi-finals and big champions digging, you hated them, you couldn't go. I love them now. I speak to John Serry, Lampard, you see them, you talk about old stories and old games but when you're there you're so desperate. Not just, I always say, you don't want to just win for yourself. You want them to get beat as well. You know, it's that feeling as well. So it's, you know...

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