Manchester United legend Gary Neville believes that winning the FA Cup final on May 25 could be a catalyst for the club’s continued success with Old Trafford.
United are having a very bad time this season, having already lost their chances of getting into the Champions League. However, the Red Devils can still improve their impression of themselves if they defeat City in the FA Cup final.
Neville has no doubt that the glory days will return to Old Trafford, and Gary admits that the match at Wembley at the end of May will just be the beginning of a new successful cycle for United.
Manchester United will start winning again. I’m sure of it like the sunrise.”
“I do not know when. There can be no guarantees about this, but I know that such things happen in cycles.”
“All my childhood I watched Liverpool, Everton and Arsenal win trophies, win the old Division One, and I was patient.”
“I had to wait until I was 18-19 when Manchester United won the league title for the first time in my life. Then we won a bunch of league titles, and now we haven’t won them in 10 years.”
“I know very well that Manchester United will win trophies again. Hopefully during my lifetime. We will be fine, just like at Liverpool, just like at Arsenal.
“These great clubs cannot be sunk. I’m sorry, but they’re too big, they’re too established, they have a great history, and they have difficult periods.”
“Listen, there’s an FA Cup final against Manchester City in three or four weeks, and it’s such a tough match because we know how good City are, but if they surprise you, then who knows what it might lead to.”
“You know, in the 1989/90 season, Sir Alex Ferguson won the FA Cup, and it instilled faith in him, in a group of players.”
“Then they won the Cup Winners’ Cup, then the League Cup, and in the end they won the league title.”
“It was built brick by brick, step by step, and the beginning of it may be right around the corner — or a few years away, but Manchester United will win again. This is inevitable,” Neville is quoted as saying by The Independent.