Gary Neville has been a complete Manchester United loyal from his early days, but he shares his admiration for another Premier League club as well.
Gary Neville has gone all out to share the one club he would highly consider joining if he had left Manchester United.
Neville joined United after leaving school into the youth system and graduated among the famous Class of 1992.
From that moment on, he played 602 games and captained his boyhood club for five seasons, winning eight Premier League titles before hanging the boots in 2011.
Throughout he remained a one-club man, alongside Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs.
In a new program The Overlap by Sky Sports talks about the incident where the 49-year-old came close to leaving Old Trafford, which he would have signed if forced to leave the club.
Known for the famous rivalry between Arsene’s Arsenal and Alex Fergusan’s Manchester United, Neville picked the North London side out of “massive respect”.
“I’m going to say Arsenal,” Neville said.
“Arsenal were the club that I generally had massive respect for.
“When I went to Highbury and you used to walk in that old entrance with the marble hall, I used to think it’s a club of proper tradition.
“I used to love the blazers that you used to wear and there is a resemblance in alignment for what United were at that time with the blazers and tradition,” said Neville.
While family allegiances made Ian Wright choose both United and Liverpool, Jamie Carragher’s response turned some heads.
The former Liverpool defender revealed he was an Everton fan as a kid, but switched to Liverpool, admiring Tottenham as well.
“I’m going to go for Tottenham and the reason I say Tottenham is because when I was a kid they were the first team I was aware of besides Everton and Liverpool”
“My first season watching football was 1984-85 and Everton and Tottenham were going for the league,” added Carragher.
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