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2nd March 2017
03:40pm GMT

Towards the end of the 2009/2010 season, Neville played ten games on the trot and he was playing well. The pundit admitted that the reason for this was because he knew that he was going to retire at the end of the season.
Knowing that these were going to be his last moments in a United jersey elevated his performances to a level which even he wouldn't have expected of himself.
This form led to Alex Ferguson convincing the Bury-born full-back that he should play for one more season.
He did, and it seems to be a decision which Neville deeply regrets.
Neville, was recently interviewed alongside his brother, Phillip, and he revealed how he knew his days were up during a game against Stoke City in the 2010/2011 season where he was famously hauled off by Ferguson.
"When you got average players causing you a problem, you know you're in trouble. "Honestly, I'd gone by then, I retired there (when he was subsituted against Stoke). Even though I played for another two months and played in another couple of games, I'd retired...in my mind I was gone."When he lined out for United in a New Year's day match against West Brom, it didn't take much of the action to unfold for him to realise that he would never play for the club again.
"I knew after twenty minutes of that game I was playing my last game for United..."The segment on Neville's impending retirement is below and you can also watch the full hour long interview by Football Today here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wm4ijl5zEk
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