Gary Neville has lifted the lid on a furious row involving two of Manchester United’s real heavyweights.
Back when the full-back was a youngster he witnessed a titanic tussle between Peter Schmeichel and Sir Alex Ferguson after a loss at Anfield
Reminiscing about his early career on Sky Sports, Neville told pal Jamie Carragher exactly what happened when they squared off.
And Neville believes it was so loud, the Liverpool players could hear it all.
"If we lost at Anfield, he [Ferguson] was seething. We all were to be fair," Neville told Sky Sports.
"He’d be sat in the dressing room unmoved and everyone was getting showered and ready and he wouldn’t move for 25 minutes.
"Once, this was when I was a kid just challenging, he had a massive row with Schmeichel in the changing room.
"I remember thinking ‘oh my god this is unbelievable, they are proper going for each other’."
And Neville admitted it was so loud, even the Liverpool players could he hear it unfold.
He added: "Everything was so close.
"Did you have peep holes into the dressing room?" Neville joked to Carragher. "We always knew you could hear everything that was being said."
Neville is not shy in coming forward in his role as a pundit.
He has refused to blame Jose Mourinho for Manchester United’s recent decline, hitting out at his superiors instead.
The Red Devils legend claimed his former club have "lost all sense of values".
This was United put in a dismal performance against West Ham on Sunday, losing 3-1 at the London Stadium.
Mourinho’s very public fallout with Paul Pogba hasn’t helped things, and without a win in three the pressure is well and truly on the Portuguese.
United haven’t won the league since Sir Alex Ferguson retired, in 2013, and Neville believes a lack of leadership from United’s board members has caused this decline.
"This mess started when United sacked David Moyes after 8 months and we lost all sense of the values that the club had been built on for 100 years," the former England defender tweeted.
"It’s not the manager it’s the lack of football leadership above him. They are bouncing all over the place with no plan!"
When a supporter came back to him saying David Moyes should never have been appointed in the first place, Neville replied: "That’s another question but when they sacked him after 8 months it went into pinball , reactive mode and chasing it! No plan…"
Neville was only a youngster back then but he was handed the captain’s armband in his later days at Old Trafford.
On the effect that had on him, Neville said: "I think it probably calmed me down in the latter part of my career as I thought if I got emotional, the team would have been.
"I’d gone through them early years when I was up and down and giving goals away.
"I was experienced then, about 34, I was actually a lot more calm."
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