GARY Neville has been hit with 605 Ofcom complaints after a political rant during the World Cup final.
The football pundit, 47, was blasted for comparing strikers’ working conditions in Britain to migrant workers in Qatar.
On Monday it was reported that telly regulator Ofcom had asked ITV bosses to explain the tirade during the run-up to Argentina’s clash with France.
And a spokesman added today: “We are assessing this content as a priority and have asked ITV provide us with details about the broadcast to inform that work”.
Neville has refused to apologise for the rant, where he attacked the UK government for “demonising” striking nurses.
He slammed the World Cup host nation for its “abhorrent” treatment of workers, and said people should “detest poor accommodation and working conditions.”
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He continued: “We can never accept that in this region or any other region and it is just worth mentioning we’ve got a current government in our country that are demonising rail workers, ambulance workers and terrifyingly nurses.
“We can’t have people being paid an absolute pittance to work, we can’t have people in accommodation that is unsavoury and disgusting. It shouldn’t happen here.
“That shouldn’t happen here with the wealth that exists.
“But it shouldn’t happen with the nurses in our country either where our nurses are having to fight for an extra pound or two pounds.”
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But Harry Redknapp said his speech was “completely ridiculous”.
And former-Three Lions player Danny Mills also slated the rant.
Asked on GB News if Neville should have made the speech, he said: “I don’t think so.
“You have a platform as a pundit, as a person on telly, you clearly have opinions, but there are people better read, better versed to understand all the situations in this.
“We saw it at the start of the World Cup with the BBC not putting not showing the opening ceremony on the main channel. And then a bit of a monologue from Gary Lineker.
“It’s OK to have opinions, but if you want to do that, do it on your own social media channels because I think you have more influence.”
Today it was revealed that staff at his own luxury hotel are on minimum wage.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
