Gary Neville

Gary Neville spent his entire professional career at Manchester United, making over 600 appearances between 1992 and 2011. He won eight Premier League titles, three FA Cups, two UEFA Champions League medals and approximately 20 major honours in total, establishing himself as the definitive English right-back of his generation. He earned 85 England caps, becoming his country's most-capped right-back, and appeared at three World Cups and two European Championships.

After retiring in 2011 Neville joined Sky Sports as a pundit and became one of British television's most prominent football analysts, known for his detailed tactical breakdowns. A brief managerial spell at Valencia between December 2015 and March 2016 produced 10 wins from 28 games before he was dismissed. He is a co-owner of Salford City alongside former Manchester United colleagues, becoming the majority shareholder following a 2025 consortium restructure that saw Beckham and Neville lead the buyout of the remaining shares.

At the 2026 World Cup, where Neville is working as a pundit for ITV, he called FIFA's decision to withhold the semi-automated offside graphic during Qatar's Group B match against Switzerland a "dictatorship", saying on air at half-time: "It's like a dictator. Honestly, it's a dictatorship, this." The controversy arose after VAR awarded Switzerland a penalty in the 14th minute without broadcasters or the public seeing whether the build-up was onside, with FIFA attributing the blackout to a technical outage.