We’ve taken Gary Neville’s ‘pub team’ remark very literally here in JOE Towers…
Two of the Premier League’s biggest clubs come face-to-face this weekend as a stuttering Manchester United (five wins in a row without particularly playing well) take on a struggling Liverpool at Old Trafford.
The two great rivals have had indifferent campaigns so far, which led former United defender Gary Neville to jokingly compare them to pub teams on Monday Night Football this week ahead of the big game on Sunday.
With this in mind we’ve decided to have some fun and come up with our best ‘Pub team XI’ from both clubs. Which side do you think would nick the three pints? *JOE goes to get coat*
Manchester United (4-5-1)
Ben Foster’s
Beamish Irwin
Henning Carls-Berg
Gary drinking Pal-lister
Daley Blind drunk
Mike Phelan grand
Quinton spent a Fortune
Liam Miller time
David Becks-ham
Juan Beer-Mata
Dimitar Beer-batov
Replacements: Fabian Late Bar-thez, Wes Newcastle Brown Ale, Eric Cans-tona, Alan Smithwicks, Wayne Schooner-y
Liverpool (4-5-1)
Cider Westerveld
Phil ke-Babb on the way home
John off the Scales
Jan Molby drunk
Phil that glass Thompson
Danny Murphy’s
John Bar-nes
Lucas Leiva me alone, I’m not that bad
Patrick soakage Berger
Stewart Downing-One
Stan Collymore drink
Replacements: Bruce Grolsch-chelar, Rigobert Sing-Song, Kevin three Sheedy’s to the wind, Steve McMan am I drunk, Milan late-Baros
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