Gary Neville leaves Wembley with carrier bag of booze as Man Utd icon announces ‘mini-retirement’ after FA Cup final
GARY NEVILLE was spotted leaving Wembley with a carrier bag full of booze as he jokingly announced his “mini-retirement”.
The Manchester United legend was in the stands to watch Premier League champions City beat the Red Devils 2-1 in the FA Cup Final on Saturday.
The 48-year-old Sky Sports presentator’s old club went behind when Ilkay Gundogan scored after just 12 SECONDS – the fastest-ever goal in FA Cup Final history.
United were then lucky to avoid going a man down as Casemiro escaped a red card after a stamp on Manuel Akanji.
City were pegged back when Jack Grealish was harshly judged to have handled in the area, allowing Bruno Fernandes to equalise, before Victor Lindelof was struck by an object thrown by a fan during the goal celebrations.
But Gundogan rifled City back into the lead shortly after the break and it remained 2-1 as they went on to seal the Double.
Now it is only Inter Milan in the Champions League Final next week that stands in the way of the Cityzens and an historic Treble.
Neville was part of the famous 1999 United Treble-winning team and the prospect of their arch-rivals matching that feat appears to be proving too much for the ex-England defender.
And he was spotted leaving Wembley yesterday with a carrier bag full of cans and a bottle of wine.
He also took to Twitter following the game to poke fun at himself after he was recently mocked for referring to holidays as “mini-retirements”.
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Neville tweeted: “Ah well a big disappointment. A poor second goal to concede.
“Time for a mini-retirement. See you in August.”
The United icon, who won eight Premier League titles during a 19-year career at Old Trafford, recently had fans left in stitches at a clip of him talking about taking time out.
He sparked mass laughter as he explained how he recharges his batteries every six weeks with a weekend break.
Neville told the Diary of a CEO podcast: “What you can have is a mini-retirement during the year, and that’s what I’ve tried to do.
“I don’t do it very well, so for instance this weekend I’m going to Spain on Friday until Monday morning.
“I call that a mini-retirement. It’s a weekend, it’s a mini-retirement.
“It’s where I can basically say for three days I’m there and I’m basically taking it, I don’t think about work.
“And I will, sometimes my best ideas come when I’m on these types of trips, but then in six weeks I’ll have another mini-retirement for five days or four days.
“Rather than thinking you’re going to stop for six months and sort of have a sabbatical, that’s not probably going to happen with people like you or I because we just basically don’t work that way.
“So to have lots of mini-retirements during the year is what I’ve tried to do in the last few years.”
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