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12th Aug 2018

Gary Neville rightly hits out at completely ridiculous claim from Twitter troll

"That's bulls**t!"

Darragh Murphy

Gary Neville puts up with a lot of nonsense from trolls.

High-profile figures in football are always going to be inundated with abuse from rival supporters and most are accustomed to it.

But nobody should have to tolerate lies being spread about them on a forum where so much fake news is spread.

Neville understandably couldn’t bite his tongue after one so-called supporter made a ludicrous claim about the former Manchester United right-back this weekend.

One Twitter-user claimed that Neville, a co-owner of Salford City, had not only turned down the request for a photograph with a young fan but actually pushed the child over.

It was a statement so ridiculous that only the most gullible of people would have believed it but Neville made a point of rubbishing the claim immediately.

At the time of writing, the original tweet had been retweeted over 200 times which means that the baseless claim had been gathering traction before Neville made the truth known in no uncertain terms.

Thankfully, Neville’s actual character was praised in the responses to the social media post because even rival supporters revealed that the Sky Sports pundit always takes the time out to chat to supporters.