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Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville(Image: PA)<\/p>\nThe former footballer sparked a row with comments made after the Manchester synagogue attackSky Sports pundit Gary Neville(Image: PA)<\/p>\n
A Liverpool Member of Parliament has backed Gary Neville in a row over the former footballer’s comments about flags and ‘angry, middle-aged white men.’ Mr Neville <\/a>spoke out in a video posted on social media after a terrorist attack on a Manchester synagogue last week.<\/a><\/p>\n In his video, the Sky Sports pundit revealed that he had removed a Union Flag from one of his Manchester development sites, suggesting that the recent trend of people flying both Union and St George’s flags is being done “in a negative fashion.”<\/a><\/p>\n Speaking in the video, the ex-Manchester United star said<\/a>: “I just kept thinking as I was driving home last night that we are all being turned on each other.<\/p>\n “The division being created is absolutely disgusting. Mainly created by angry, middle-aged, white men, who know exactly what they are doing.”<\/p>\n After explaining that he had removed the flag from his building site, he added: “It is quite clearly sending a message.”<\/p>\n He suggested the flag is being used in a negative fashion before stating that he loves his country, having represented England 85 times at international level.<\/p>\n The comments have prompted plenty of debate in the country and he has been heavily criticised by many figures on the right – including Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.<\/p>\n In his own video, Mr Farage accused the ex-footballer of being ‘so detached from the average football fan’ and suggested it was mainly middle-aged, white men who watch Sky Sports and pay his salary.<\/p>\n But LFC-supporting Liverpool West Derby<\/a> MP Ian Byrne has backed the ex-Man Utd player in the row, something he said he would normally find hard to do owing to the rivalry between the two North West clubs.<\/p>\n Mr Byrne tweeted in response to Mr Farage’s video and said: “From a Kopite, it takes a lot to back @GNev2 but he\u2019s absolutely spot on, and millions are with him on this.”<\/p>\n Speaking about the Reform UK leader, he added: “Ignore the upper-class banker who\u2019s got no idea what working class struggle looks like.”<\/p>\n While Mr Farage said he was amazed that Mr Neville remains working for Sky, reports suggest the broadcaster has no intention of punishing him for his intervention.<\/p>\n Following his comments, Neville immediately returned to duty over the weekend after being named as a pundit for Chelsea\u2019s dramatic win against Liverpool<\/a>, as well as Manchester City<\/a>\u2019s slender success against Brentford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former footballer sparked a row with comments made after the Manchester synagogue attackSky Sports pundit Gary Neville(Image:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,1676,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-488066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-gary-neville","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115349348275700119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ian](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0_Free-School-meals-demonstration-at-Monksdown-Primary-SchoolNorris-GreenLiverpoolPic-Andrew-Teeba.j.jpeg\")
Ian Byrne, MP for Liverpool West Derby(Image: Andrew Teebay Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n![\"Reform](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0_Fayaz-Khan-court-case.jpg\")
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (Image: PA)<\/p>\n