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Red: My Autobiography
Boy from the K-Stand
‘Gary Neville is a Red, he hates Scousers.’
RIGHT FROM THE start, I loved United and I loved an argument.
So it was always going to be a volatile mix when I went to a school full of Liverpool fans.
I grew up in Bury, just up the road from Manchester. But looking at all the Liverpool FC football shirts, my school might as well have been yards from Anfield.
This was the eighties.
Gary Neville's Red: My Autobiography is a unique account of a career at the very top of the game.
Liverpool were the glamorous, successful team of the moment so pretty much all the kids at school supported them, like kids do. There we were, less than ten miles from Old Trafford, but it could have been the heart of Merseyside.
I wasn’t the only United fan in the playground, but it felt that way to me.
I don’t know how you react to being outnumbered, but it brought out the fighter in me. My dad’s side of the family have a stubborn, argumentative streak, and school is where I first discovered that I’m a Neville to my core.
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