
‘He only said what everyone was thinking. They’d sold the superstars and we were little spotty-faced kids coming into the team’ Nicky Butt on Alan Hansen’s ‘you can’t win anything with kids’
FourFourTwo EN 29 November 2025 at 09:00(Processed: 29 November 2025 at 14:22)
Nicky Butt commented on Alan Hansen's famous 'you can’t win anything with kids' remark, agreeing that the team felt under-equipped after major players were sold. Butt suggested he and his young teammates felt they were unfavorably compared to the established stars who had departed. The original one-liner by the former Match of the Day pundit became an iconic statement.
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