Thursday, June 29, 2006

Gary Neville and Socialism #2

Strangely enough, I'm still getting a lot of traffic from people googling to see whether or not Gary Neville is a socialist. Who would have thought that a piss poor Frank Skinner joke could penetrate so deeply into the English footballing psyche . . . again?

To clear the matter up once and for all, Gary Neville has never been to a business meeting of the Manchester branch of the SPGB. However, that might be because the branch have their meetings on a Monday night and, as everyone knows, Sky always insist that Man Utd play their games on a Monday. You draw your own conclusions . . .

3 comments:

michael the tubthumper said...

repeating talking points can hardly come as a shock tho can it??

INTERNATIONAL STRANGENESS DAY

Reidski said...

Nah, I can confirm that Neville was not and never has been a member of the SPGB. But the NCP on the other hand ....

Imposs1904 said...

I wasn't going to mention that Reidski, but since you brought it up, do you think there is any truth in the rumour that his brother Phil is a member of the RCP-ML?

I understand that was the reason he transferred to Everton last year. He was under instruction from his Central Committee to try and revive Alexei Sayle's old branch.