'I apologise': Gary Neville hits out at 'disease in the game' after Manchester derby in Sky Sports rant | OneFootball

Gary Neville has not held back with his assessment of the Manchester derby

Gary Neville launched an astonishing rant about the standard of quality on show during the Manchester derby.

For Man City, they missed the chance to move into fourth place in the Premier League table and could find themselves out of the top six come Monday night if Newcastle beat relegation threatened Leicester City.

Meanwhile Man United may have moved back into 13th place, but a top-half finish is looking a long shot now.

In a game of very few chances and lacking any real urgency, Neville was very critical about the approach from both sides as he offered an apology for his efforts whilst on commentary duty.

“I don’t think there was one player who walked off the pitch disappointed about drawing the game 0-0, from either side,” Neville said on Sky Sports. “I think they all sort of walked off thinking ‘we’re okay here we got away without making a mistake’.

“It was really disappointing, I apologise for my co-commentary, I think I let it get to me, I was boring on there as well. That was drab.

“I get what he [Ruben Amorim] is saying about it being that point in the season, with City and United being in a difficult moment.

“But this robotic nature of not leaving our positions, being micro-managed within an inch of our lives, not having any freedom to take a risk to go and try and win a football match is becoming an illness in the game, it’s becoming a disease in the game.

“ Ultimately when you think about Pep Guardiola and his teams over the last 10 years, that’s what his teams do but we are seeing poor imitations of that across the board now.

"United’s goalkeeper rolling his foot on the ball and waiting for things to happen. That’s not it.

"That’s not what this club is and not what we do here. Liverpool don’t do that. You’ve got to be a top team with tempo in your play, rhythm in your play."