Manchester City keep poking away at Arsenal in title race with vital win at Liverpool | Is Carrick now contender for permanent manager role at Manchester Utd in summer?

Peter Drury· Host0:00

Welcome, everybody, to Anfield, which is just about calming down after, uh, what Gary rightly described as bedlam. This is the Gary Neville Podcast. So, Gary, I'm gonna ask you to try and somehow rationalize the bedlam we've just seen, in terms both of the title race, of the piece of theatre we've just enjoyed together, um, and of course, all of the contentious issues that go around it. Where do you want to start?

Gary Neville· Host0:26

Oh, sh- let's start with the title race, 'cause that's the, that's the thing. I mean, a, a number of people leading up to today's match, in the studio before the match, I think Roy Keane, I think Daniel Sturridge, Jamie Carragher, Micah Richards, all said that if Liverpool beat City here today, then it's title done. Arsenal have won it. Maybe I didn't go that far in the interviews that I did with Sky Sports News, but you knew full well that it was gonna be a big problem going... You know, being nine points behind. The way in which Arsenal look, they look so solid, and nothing changes that, actually, with this result here. But what does change the title race is the pressure that the team behind you applies, as it does get more nervy going into March and April. And if you've got nine points to play with, it's a lot better than six. [crowd cheering] I have to say that the City have a big chance. They have a big chance to go and put some pressure on a team that have not won a title before. Not one Arsenal player really has got the experience of winning Premier League titles, and the manager hasn't either, um, directly. So I think from that point of view, it's an unbelievable opportunity for Ci- for City to