Gary Neville has hit back at Antonio Conte after the Italian called the pundit of for speaking in a ‘stupid’ way.
Neville described the display from Chelsea as “embarrassing” and “unacceptable” as they lost to Manchester City but Conte hit back after the game, saying:
The pundit has to use the head to understand when you speak about tactics. I think you must have knowledge to speak about tactics and not only to speak in a stupid way.
However, on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football, Neville stuck by his words and said his criticisms were fair.
He said:
I don’t use the words ’embarrassing’ or ‘unacceptable’ lightly. I’ve had to use it in the last week twice on co-commentary. Yesterday I went quiet on co-commentary for two or three minutes – Martin Tyler will tell you I don’t do that often – but I had to go quiet as I had to reflect on what I was seeing. To be honest with you, it disgusts me. The first bit is a bit tactical for a bit of belief. I agree about not taking the ball, not getting on the half-turn as Man City are a great pressing side but I can’t relate to it, in any way shape or form for the best players and teams in the world. City are the best team in the Premier League by a mile. When they give the ball away, they react. When they win the ball back, everything is quick and at top-speed. They won a cup final last Sunday and they came out on Thursday and they are at it again. There’s no rest. These Chelsea players took a day off. They took a rest. They chucked it in yesterday, those players. Antonio Conte has called us stupid, I don’t know the exact quote, but he’ll have watched that back this morning. I know the Juventus team that he played in and I was England coach against his Italy team. His teams work hard, they are aggressive, they are good defensively, they tackle and they know how to play. He will have been equally disgusted. One thing I can guarantee you is the Chelsea boardroom will have watched that performance yesterday and will not accept it. It was nowhere near good enough and it was unacceptable.
After the game between Crystal Palace and Manchester United, Neville answered a question from a viewer who asked about his thoughts on managers having words about what’s been said by a pundit and the former England international said he’s not sure why any manager really cares about what’s said by an ex-player on TV.
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