Gary Neville, the Sky Sports pundit and former Manchester United footballer, can’t help himself when it comes to tedious political rants. His latest comes in the form of a one-eyed defence of the Prime Minister’s right to accept freebies, including tickets to Premier League matches. Neville, a prominent Labour supporter, believes Sir Keir Starmer has ‘not done anything wrong’ by accepting thousands of pounds worth of football freebies, and that watching Arsenal with his family was ‘his only release’.
'Given the absolute corruption of the past eight years… it's absolutely incredible people are angry about @Keir_Starmer getting free @Arsenal tickets'@GNev2 responds to the freebies furore while speaking at the @UKLabour party conference https://t.co/EElqczzT1K pic.twitter.com/V2hEW47Ibo
— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) September 23, 2024
Neville said it was ‘bizarre’ how much focus had been put on the story, telling a fringe event at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool:
‘Keir Starmer’s paid for his season ticket to go with his family to watch Arsenal all his life and he’s now being told he can’t go to that same seat, when I’m sure he would – you know he would, everybody knows he would – he’s been told he’s got to go in a hospitality box, a private box.
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