Meet the new manager of the England women’s football team, Phil Neville
Anything Toby Young can do, Phil Neville can do … well, you’ll see the similarities.
Phil Neville, the brother of England men’s football team Gary Neville, has been appointed manager of the England women’s football team.
And sure as night follows day, someone found some Twitter messages which appear to make him entirely inappropriate for the job.
Here are the tweets that have got Phil Neville’s tenure as England women’s manager off to a controversial start (has now deleted his account). Might want to hold a press conference & address them, their relevance to doing the job, & his lack of managerial experience, fast. pic.twitter.com/bXrDViWBTW
— Dan Roan (@danroan) January 24, 2018
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Should be an interesting first team meeting.
And guess where the Football Association announced the appointment? Of course they did (although now appears to be the least of its problems).
Neville has since deleted his old Twitter account and is now fully aware of the concept of ‘cut and paste’.
Here’s a flavour of the response on Twitter. Do share yours in the comments.
I've had longer shits then the length of time Phil Neville was England Women's manager
— Reverend&TheMakers (@Reverend_Makers) January 23, 2018
Phil Neville seeing his old tweets resurface. pic.twitter.com/LwscQEPhbm
— Coral (@Coral) January 23, 2018
Only been off Twitter for a couple of hours, since then Phil Neville has been appointed England Women’s manager and is already on the verge of getting sacked.
Well done to all involved.
— Darren (@nsno_83) January 23, 2018
And in ‘friends like these department’ comes this.
Just seen the Phil Neville stuff.
The permanently offended are turning moderate people into hardliners.
Not my choice as England manager but the notion that old tweets, a piss poor attempt at at humour warrants this whirlwind of faux outrage is fucking cobblers.
— Stan Collymore (@StanCollymore) January 23, 2018
In summary …
Those tweets were not funny laddy nonsense that quite frankly we could all do without from anyone. Not sure they’re a sackable offence though ?
— Elizabeth Ammon (@legsidelizzy) January 23, 2018
This one is not really ok though is it? I’m not sure domestic abuse is really joke material is it. pic.twitter.com/E9sqRblMn2
— Elizabeth Ammon (@legsidelizzy) January 23, 2018
