If you watched the programme, you would have seen the final shortlists and heard Roy saying he didn’t like picking names like this.
He said it was so hard to make choices and clearly from what he said in discussing each player and picking the final places, he would have liked to put more players in his final 11 than was possible.
He wasn’t discrediting players like Scholes, Cantona, Rio or RVN etc., and some of his choices reflected the impact those players had on him personally, particularly when he joined Utd, as a young up and coming player, from Notts Forest.
Roy freely admits he’d probably choose different players on another day.
The truth is, as most of us know, the all time top Utd team from the Premier League era, consists of about 20 to 25 players, which doesn’t fit the 11 player remit.
Oh, and the Ron Atkinson quip was clearly a joke.