Manchester City keep poking away at Arsenal in title race with vital win at Liverpool | Is Carrick now a contender for permanent manager role at Manchester Utd in summer?
The Gary Neville Podcast
Sky Sports
4.3 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Gary Neville and Peter Drury react to Manchester City's remarkable comeback victory over Liverpool and how this result will give Pep Guardiola the belief that they can put pressure on Arsenal in the race for the title.
They also discuss the race for the Champions League places as Michael Carrick's impressive run as Manchester Utd head coach continued with a comfortable win over Tottenham on Saturday.
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| 0:35.6 | Welcome everybody to Anfield, which is just about calming down after what Gary rightly described |
| 0:41.0 | as bedlam. |
| 0:42.0 | This is the Gary Neville podcast. |
| 0:43.8 | So Gary, I'm going to ask you to try and somehow rationalise the bedlam we've just |
| 0:49.1 | seen in terms both of the title race, of the piece of theatre we've just enjoyed together, and of course, |
| 0:58.2 | all of the contentious issues that go around it. |
| 1:00.5 | Where do you want to start? |
| 1:01.5 | Let's start with the title race because that's the thing. |
| 1:05.7 | I mean, a number of people leading up to today's matches in the studio before the match, |
| 1:10.7 | I think Roy Keene, I think Daniel Sturridge, Jamie Carriger, Micah Richards all said |
| 1:14.6 | that if Liverpool beat City here today, then it's title done. |
| 1:17.6 | Arsenal have won it. |
| 1:19.6 | Maybe I didn't go that far in the interviews that I did with Sky Sports News, |
| 1:24.6 | but you knew full well that it was going to be a big problem going |
| 1:27.9 | you know being nine points behind the way in which Arsenal looked they look so solid |
| 1:31.5 | and nothing changes that actually in this result here but what does change the title |
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