Shaun Wright-Phillips
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So he was just so premeditated and just taught a lot the style of football and everything.
Yeah, it is.
I feel like it's different times though as well.
I feel like
back when he was doing ever so well.
I feel like the player power wasn't a thing.
I feel like if the manager told you to do something called, this is how we're going to play, that's just what you went out there and done.
Whereas now I just feel like in certain aspects, if the bigger players don't want to do that, it feels like they don't put that all in, if that makes sense.
Like if you go back to his time at Man United, where he got the sack and then Solskjaer comes in, the same 10 players go unbeaten, 10 games in a row.
It doesn't really happen like that.
For a player, you're not going to just lose and then all of a sudden think, all right, cool, he's gone now.
But it seems like in this day and age, that's how much players have.
They have a lot of power and a lot of say.
If they get the dressing room, things can go difficult for managers, in my eyes.
Yeah, him, Alano and Joe De Silva would go in before a game and they would get there like maybe...
10 minutes before everybody else.
They would already be changed in their kit.
They would set up their own little head tennis court in the changing rooms, or they would just be doing kick-outs.
But I'd have, like, Brazilian samba music on, and they would just be dancing around, playing football in the changing rooms.
That was kind of like...