BITESIZE | Gary Neville: Messi, the Scandalous Talent

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today’s story comes from Gary Neville, who is irked by the way the term ‘genius’ is bandied around in football parlance. But seeing Messi playing in the Camp Nou against Manchester City in 2015 left him genuinely speechless.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode
0:19.0	you'll hear an elite football or tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day.
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0:28.0	which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:33.0	We're with Gary Neville, who reflects on how the talents of Leo Messy left him literally lost for words during that iconic performance against Manchester City in the camp now back in March 2015. The amount of players I get heard called geniuses. He's magic, he's a genius. He's a magician.
1:00.0	No he's not. There's nowhere to go from there. There's nowhere to go from magician. There's nowhere to go from
1:08.5	And you know what he doesn't these words leaving no room for so I watch I watch messy play against Manchester City in the
1:16.0	new camp and I was genuinely for the first time I think in my football career I can think
1:21.8	of maybe Ronaldo a couple times at United where I was
1:23.7	watching injured in 2008 where I was probably similarly mesmerized, but I was
1:28.9	genuinely as a broadcaster the only time I've ever watched a performance where I've been genuinely mesmerized by a player was messy for the 20 minutes before hard time in the new camp against Manchester City.
1:39.0	I was like, and I've seen him before and I've seen him on the television and he have seen him live many times as you have.
1:45.4	But I was genuinely thinking this is as good as it's ever going to be.
1:51.3	I'm happy to use every, I call it a scandalous, it's scandalous talent, it's out of this world and people on
1:58.0	social media will tell you, oh you're bully him up to, you cannot go, that's the point where I just thought I have to go for it.
2:05.8	It's the only time, but once you've used that for him, everything else is below that.
2:10.5	Everything else, every work that you know, you can't get going to call you know with respect
2:15.2	watching a player at Burnley taught them last week you can't go and call him
2:18.4	scandalous talent or a genius because you've called messy that.
2:24.0	So I always like to think where I pitch things is relative generally through.
2:27.0	That's difficult.
2:28.0	It is difficult to get that right, I think.
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