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I wonder how people have have interpreted this quote here. Is it a Sky mandate/agenda to protect Maguire - and potentially English players by extension - or was it a one-off?
I always found the 180 turn Paul Merson did on Maguire quite weird. He pretty much called him a bum when we signed him - which was the right call - then turned around, apologised and became part of his defence team full time, making up ridiculous excuses, point fingers elsewhere and citing stuff like “he’s a good guy” or whatever.
Not that it’s shocking news that pundits have agendas, but to hear it said so explicitly. You’d hope they’d be reasonably impartial and state things as they are, but to say they were going out of their way to do PR work for Maguire is…wow. Even more so because it’s detrimental for United.
state of punditry is as bad as refereeing