We're here for the overlap in focus and we are going to look back at the Carabow

Cup final between Manchester United and Newcastle with Gary Neville, Shee Given and

Manchester United fans and Newcastle fans and two journalists from the Athletic.

Gary, start on Manchester United's performance in the final.

I thought it was probably as good a cup final performance as you could wish to get at

Wembley.

I spoke to actually one of the United coaches at the end of the game.

They were disappointed with the fact that they didn't play, you know, the football that they

would expect them to play. But I just think, how many brilliant performances do you ever see at Wembley just generally? I played there a lot of times with England, played there with United. The occasion, you don't really see free-flowing football. I think the fact that it just brings that more nerves, the sort of both teams are prepared like you wouldn't believe. but to manage a game in that way, to control it in the way in which did, to show the experience that they did, I thought it was an unbelievable performance. And I have to say that, you know, my, I think it's a performance that you'd probably respect in the same way as I would think of it from a defensive point of view of how Newcastle at times, I mean, we were getting stats through in the second half of the game, weren't we?

That Newcastle had 80% of the ball in the previous 10, 15 minutes, but it didn't look like they were ever going to score. And for me, it was just really impressive. They were really shrewd and streetwise. Does that give you more belief and confidence going forward to Manchester United, rather than them actually playing fantastic football,

the fact of how they won it, you think Bodeswell going forward in the future and winning maybe other trophies this season? I said it a few weeks ago in this studio that this, Eric Tenard came as a disciple of Pep Guardiola. So I was imagining that we were going to see what we saw at Iaxi,

you know, lots of possession, passed the ball to death.

Honestly, I'm, the last two weeks what I've seen in Barcelona

and what I saw in that final on Sunday, was for me, what I think Manchester United was under Sir Alex Ferguson,

that we'd win games in different ways, it'd be electric, it could be counter-attacking, it could be resilient, it could be defensive, it could be deep, it could be compact, it could be aggressive, it could be nasty, like Martinez and Casimir were at times on Sunday. I never want him to change the way in which we've played in this last couple of weeks. I don't want him to sort of have this vision of, of course you play against some teams. You can play great football, maybe one of the lower teams in the Premier League at home, and you get all that ball, and it'll just naturally happen. But I have no aspiration whatsoever as the United fan to see anything other than what I've watched in this last couple of weeks, which is fight, spirit, toughness, speed of attacking, electricity on the pitch, that

connection with the fans where you can see that there's that feeling there. To me, that is

united. I don't expect or want anymore and I hope that we don't go down the route of bringing

in more players in the summer that take us down more of a possession path. I like the idea of

like Fred Fernandez, Casamiro and midfield,

the types of players that they are, the fact that they're just all over the place. There's an element of that in the Barcelona game. They took risks. They took risks. They could have lost goals against Barcelona, but they could have won the game, four and five. But on Sunday was a different type of performance. that's where you get your heads on and you're saying, right, we're winning a final.

And I just thought, I was so impressed

for that performance on Sunday.

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