Poor Phil Neville.
Only a few weeks ago, the younger of the Neville brothers was being mocked for his rather unique way of counting with numbers on Sky Sports’ new The Debate show…
Phil Neville with his own twist on counting #thedebate 😂 pic.twitter.com/RB6QqRBcXr
— Joe Williams (@JoeWHSG) August 9, 2017
Then there was his rather interesting suggestion that Liverpool should replace troublesome Phillipe Coutinho with famously immaculate pro Diego Costa…
https://twitter.com/jslfcx/status/895400542570205184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.joe.co.uk%2Fsport%2Ffans-were-baffled-by-phil-nevilles-solution-to-the-philippe-coutinho-situation-137296
And of course who can forget the time he seemingly confused the word ‘pedestrian’ with ‘pedantic’…
https://twitter.com/SarcyFringehead/status/818950409029058560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.joe.co.uk%2Fsport%2Fpoor-phil-neville-is-mocked-for-using-a-word-he-doesnt-seem-to-understand-106747
In fairness, we all make mistakes, and football pundits are no different. It’s got to the stage now where people are actively looking for poor Phil to slip up. Alas, he didn’t do himself any favours on The Debate again, when talking about Arsenal’s sorry performance against a rampant Liverpool.
Talking about Arsene Wenger’s use of new signings Alexandre Lacazette and Sead Kolašinac, Neville referred to the ‘big money’ they’d both cost the North London club…
https://twitter.com/MartiaIIIIIII/status/902287538685169665
Sadly for Neville, although Arsenal forked out around £47m on Lacazette, their new Bosnian defender cost them precisely zero point zero pounds as a free transfer. If we’re being kind, we could assume that he was referring to Kolašinac’s wages (which aren’t particularly high), but these fans were having none of it…
He claimed we were now behind Everton and Southampton ffs!?!?? He makes Merson sound intelligent
— Happy Coder (@happycoder1969) August 28, 2017
"(Arsenal) have spent big on Kolasinac…" – @fizzer18
They bought him on a free transfer Phil 🤦♂️
— Buff Hamster (@BrittAbroad) August 29, 2017
Hey Phil speak to Gary bfr opening your Mouth KolAK46 Cost us , he will tell u we parted with Nowt, Zilch no Euro No Pound 👊🏿
— 🏴GOONER”1978” (@ibrarazam) August 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/jonesyfire/status/902420917757911040
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