Gary Neville Admits Jealousy And Respect For Liverpool

GARY Neville has spoken of his
long-standing hatred for
Liverpool – and taken a dig at
nouveau riche Manchester City.
Manchester United captain Neville
admits Liverpool’s dominance of
the English game when he was
growing up in the Seventies and
Eighties fuelled his intense dislike
for the Merseyside club. “When I
was younger, there was no
doubt about it [hatred of
Liverpool],” he said. “I was a
United fan, they were winning
everything and it was a horrible
time for us.

“I suppose it comes from
jealousy through childhood. It
was that, hatred, passion for
your own club; you don’t want
them to win anything.”
But in a dig at City, Neville says he
has more respect for Liverpool
than clubs who have tried to buy
success.
He added: “I have more respect
for them [Liverpool] as a club in a
sense of their tradition and their
history than I would do some of
the other clubs that have been
coming on the scene in the last
few years, throwing a load of
money at it.”
Neville, 35, also admitted he
thought his time was up towards
the end of last season when he
had not been offered a new
contract.
He said: “I said during training
one morning, ‘I have three
games to go at United’. I had not
spoken to the club and I
genuinely felt it could be the last
three weeks.”
Neville was handed a one-year
extension but accepts it will
probably be his last.