Terrace Talk: Droning Pip Neville throws up tempting David de Gea conspiracy theory

United fans tends to look after their old lags. Any ex-player who didn’t blot his copybook whilst at Old Trafford can usually count on Reds to back him up in his future ventures, or at least give him the benefit of the doubt.

Little ‘Pip’ Neville, however, sorely tries the patience of even the best of us. Let us leave aside the way he shamelessly jumped aboard the lucrative Class Of ‘92 branding bandwagon, despite not actually having been in that famous youth team.

His aggravatingly banal and droning TV punditry is a byword for all that is wrong about the meejah Old Boys Network, and his frequent soundbite howlers have become semi-legendary.