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Twenty-five years on, Phil Neville has admitted that Alan Hansen’s famous ‘You can’t win anything with kids’ quote had a devastating effect on him.

The Match of the Day pundit’s notorious comment came after United had been trounced 3-1 by Aston Villa on the opening day of the 1995/96 season, and a summer in which star players Mark Hughes, Paul Ince and Andrei Kanchelskis had been sold to make space for Neville and other emerging youth players.

The game at Villa Park was the first time both Neville brothers had started a first-team fixture and, in the latest episode of UTD Podcast, Phil revealed that the scrutiny that followed the defeat was crushing.

“I went home that night, I watched it [Match of the Day].