il est mentionné que neville est très fier de sa haine envers les scousers.
le guardian mentionne le forum
www.ynwa.tv sur lequel un forumeur déclare que si un scouser venait s'asseoir à côté de lui dans un bus,neville changerait de place,même si le scouser n'aime pas le foot.
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He hates scousers, scousers hate him
Gary Neville's lifelong feud will flare up again at Anfield today, writes Daniel Taylor
Saturday February 18, 2006
The Guardian
Nantes-Atlantique airport, February 2002. Manchester United's players are queuing by passport control after their Champions League tie at the Stade de la Beaujoire and someone has heard that Steven Gerrard has been injured, quite possibly seriously. There is little sympathy about the plight of a Liverpool footballer. Someone queries whether it might be a broken neck. "Shame it wasn't Michael Owen," someone else pipes up.
It is not a story that will appeal to believers of old-fashioned sportsmanship but, equally, it should not surprise any students of Mancunian-Liverpudlian sporting enmity given that the current captain of Manchester United once publicly declared: "I can't stand Liverpool, I can't stand Liverpool people, I can't stand anything to do with them." Gary Neville, the type of man who probably has "Glory Glory Man Utd" as his ringtone, has never made any apologies for putting scousers at the top of his wish-list for Room 101. Never one to hold back with his opinions, he is so flagrantly anti-Liverpool that his father, Neville Neville, interrupted one of his rants a few years ago to switch off the interviewer's tape-recorder, apparently fearful that his son was talking himself into trouble. Neville Jr is said to have responded: "But I do hate them, Dad."
At Anfield today, his 31st birthday, he will discover how badly his Liverpool-baiting has gone down when United arrive on enemy territory for an FA Cup fifth-round tie dripping with bad feeling. Neville is a sturdy character, accustomed to abuse whenever he walks below the "This is Anfield" sign, but Sir Alex Ferguson was moved yesterday to ask whether his right-back would be "eaten alive". Ferguson predicted the invective against his No2 would be "incessant" and he is unlikely to be proved wrong given that contributors to Liverpool's Through the Wind and Rain fanzine are threatening a "lynching" while urging Neville-haters to "stock up on tar and feathers".
Anyone, however, who believes the abuse will crack Neville does not know or understand the man. A United fanatic since the age of four, he has made it his business to let the wider world know of his Liverpool-loathing in the same way that, 35 years ago, Manchester City's Mike Doyle went to the newspapers with the explicit intention of publicising the fact that he "couldn't stand Manchester United and all their glory-hunting fans". The repercussions for Doyle included his car being vandalised, windows smashed at home and, on the eve of the next derby, a visit from the local CID after an anonymous tip-off that he would be shot in the centre-circle.
Neville has also received threatening letters and, like Doyle, he remains unrepentant, regardless of the trouble he has brought upon himself. When United lost to Liverpool in the Worthington Cup final in 2003 he returned home to find dozens of bottles of Worthington blocking his drive. Far more sinister was the night a gang of Liverpool fans tried to overturn his car after spotting him, stuck in match traffic in Salford Quays, a mile or so from Old Trafford.
Badly shaken, Neville decided after that not to go out of his way to make provocative comments about Liverpool. He has even tried to make conciliatory noises, claiming to be embarrassed by the attention his remarks had attracted in the past. Yet, frequently, he reverts to type. Barely a United victory over Liverpool has passed in the last 10 years without Neville going out of his way to goad the opposition fans. Four weeks ago he undoubtedly went too far, sprinting 60 yards to the visiting enclosure at Old Trafford, pumping his fists and gyrating his hips in some kind of Mancunian haka. The repercussions will begin in the bearpit of Anfield today.
On Tuesday he will turn to tackling the Football Association's solicitors at a disciplinary hearing in London for his "excessive celebrations". Neville denies the charge of improper conduct and it speaks volumes about his personality that he has instructed Old Trafford's resident lawyer Maurice Watkins to remain in Manchester because he wants to represent himself. "Do they want a game of robots?" he has been heard to complain.
To trace the history of this malevolence it is necessary to go back to Neville's youthful days on the Stretford End where hating Liverpool was considered mandatory and drummed into any new adherents. His lesson from the terraces extended to playground battles at Elton High School in Bury where he remembers, with palpable disgust, that the reds of Liverpool habitually outnumbered those of United. Neville would ask his classmates why they supported a team from Merseyside when they lived closer to Manchester. They responded by taunting him about the amount of silverware hoarded in the Anfield trophy room. "When I was growing up there was certainly a large amount of jealousy involved," Neville once confessed. "The truth is, I envied them for all the success their team was having."
The resentment festered quietly at first. "I coached Gary for many years and I was never aware of how strongly he felt," Eric Harrison, his youth team coach, said this week. "We played Liverpool plenty of times at junior level and Gary was no more hyped up than anyone else. It was later that he started getting in bits and pieces of bother and everyone became aware of what he thinks of Liverpool."
It was lifted into the mainstream when Neville unleashed his childhood frustrations in an interview with a United fanzine. "I said words to the effect that I can't stand Liverpool and everything to do with them," Neville recalled a few years later. His diatribe was lifted by a national newspaper, bringing about the song "Gary Neville is a Red, he hates scousers". Neville was always popular with the Old Trafford crowd but, by slagging off their despised rivals, he had been elevated to a new plateau.
Since then he has worn his aversion like a badge of honour. His team-mates now refuse, as a standing joke, to sit next to him on the coach going to Anfield for fear of a brick flying through the window.
"You get the feeling the other players all get on but you can imagine Neville not even wanting to sit on the same bus as a Liverpool player, let alone be civil," one Liverpool fan wrote on the You'll Never Walk Alone website this week. "Maybe it's something to do with him being born in Bury," someone else suggested. "He isn't really a proper Mancunian, so he thinks he has to try harder."
What largely goes unreported is the song that Liverpool fans have penned in Neville's honour, a particularly obscene verse to the tune of "Gary Neville is a Red" but with the lyrics changed in a way that any decent person must hope his mother, Jill, is not aware of. Given that he is subjected to thousands of Liverpudlians singing it every time they play, it is no wonder Neville might want to rub a few noses in it when United win. "What I know for certain," Ferguson said yesterday, "is that I'd rather have Gary Neville in my team than some kind of cold fish."
Reds' FA Cup rivalry
1898 Fifth round and replay
Manchester United 0 Liverpool 0
Liverpool 2 Manchester United 1
1903 Fourth round
Manchester United 2 Liverpool 1
1921 Third round and replay
Liverpool 1 Manchester United 1
Manchester United 1 Liverpool 2
1948 Fourth round
Manchester United 3 Liverpool 0
1960 Fourth round
Liverpool 1 Manchester United 3
1977 Final
Liverpool 1 Manchester United 2
1979 Semi-final and replay
Liverpool 2 Manchester United 2
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 1
1985 Semi-final and replay
Liverpool 2 Manchester United 2
Liverpool 1 Manchester United 2
1996 Final
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 1
1999 Fourth round
Manchester United 2 Liverpool 1
Overall record W D L
Manchester United 8 4 2
Liverpool 2 4 8
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