Get the latest United updates, transfer news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free One of the more excessive punditry proclamations this season came from Gary Neville when he dubbed Pep Guardiola the 'greatest manager of all time' after Manchester City had retained the Carabao Cup against a Tottenham team who flew the white flag days before kick-off.
The standard of punditry nosedived in a season of locked turnstiles, with broadcasters appearing to encourage partisan punditry, as if to offset the absence of paying matchgoers.
Neville, otherwise erudite, has often been accused of overcompensating for his red allegiance by overpraising United 's rivals.
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