Gab Marcotti

I really like Niki Ba as a person with the privilege of meeting him.

They're doing their jobs as pundits.

They...

You know, making fun of somebody's height isn't necessarily, like, the most... That's not fun to do for me, but, you know... Yeah, it's kind of like, if you're going to talk about, like, oh, look, it's difficult for him against a big guy, but, you know, joking that he's a Smurf, it's kind of like third grade, but whatever.

And Martinez should be right in saying, I don't care.

Like, not taking it too seriously.

I love that.

I do wonder, too, by the way, like, Paul Scholes isn't exactly...

Yeah, exactly.

I don't think so.

Yeah, exactly.

So, I don't know.

And, of course, I have to point out this.

But I do think it's worth mentioning because it did get quite a bit of attention.

And it is the kind of thing that can galvanize matters a little bit.

Yeah, completely.

And look, in the end, all these guys in the punditocracy, all these former matchers, I don't know that they're always constructive.

in what they say because they keep harking back to the past.

But nobody's going to doubt the fact that they love the club and they want to see Manchester United do well.

With that in mind, one of them, Michael Carrick, is back as coach.