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Neville on England spying
- Updated: December 18, 2016
Gary Neville has identified two occasions when he thought the media overstepped the boundary during his four years as a coach with England.
The Sky Sports pundit appeared on Sunday Supplement alongside the show’s presenter Neil Ashton, The Times’ Henry Winter, The Mail on Sunday’s Oliver Holt and the Daily Mail’s Martin Samuel to debate the state of football journalism.
The discussion got onto the media’s involvement with the England team and while Neville, who served as an assistant manager to Roy Hodgson for four years, did pick out two incidents that he thought were wrong, he did think the media had treated England fairly during his time on the coaching staff.
“The only two occasions I had an issue with was the ‘Moldova leg over’ incident, which was a wonderful headline,” Neville said.
“The journalists were invited into the team hotel, there is an element of privilege there as well as privacy.
“One of the players had a female …
