SOCCER sourpuss Phil Neville has admitted he’s the Billy No-Mates of football and has no interest in making friends.
The glum former Manchester United and England star has shunned family pleas to mix more since becoming coach of David Beckham’s US club Inter Miami.
Former England Women’s coach and much maligned TV pundit Phil, 44, said: “I don’t have many friends. I don’t want many friends.
“Sir Alex Ferguson used to say to us ‘you only need six friends in your life – the ones that are going to carry your coffin’.
“He’d say ‘just get six friends around you, they’re the ones that are going to go to the grave with you’.
“So I’ve never been one to have lots of friends.”
Anti-social Phil said he counted only Man Utd team-mates David Beckham, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and his brother Gary as close mates – but rarely spoke to them.
He added: “Obviously, Nicky, Scholesy, Gary, Becks and Giggsy are my close friends – they’re almost like my brothers – and I don’t see them at all now.
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“We’re on WhatsApp groups and stuff like that, but they’re getting on with their lives.
“But apart from that I’ve not come to Miami and made friends. That’s not the type of person that I am.
“I’ve got probably one friend out here that I’ve met that I played golf with yesterday.
“My grandad hated people – he only wanted his family around him.
“When I used to go on holiday with my two children we used to go to Barbados and the kids used to wander off and I used to drag them back.
“Like ‘don’t you go mixing with those kids, we’ve got our own little unit here, I don’t want anyone infiltrating us’.
“We just didn’t like anyone.”
Phil told Gabby Logan on her The Mid-Point podcast that even his relationship with 46-year-old Sky pundit brother Gary is far from close.
He said the pair text each other once a month with short messages saying “how are you?” with a one word reply, “fine”.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
