GARY NEVILLE has opened up about his former teammate who was a serial parking ticket offender.
The Manchester United icon revealed that Fabian Barthez used to have over 150 parking tickets during his days with the Red Devils.
Neville, 49, and Barthez, 52, played together at Old Trafford between 2000 and 2004 lifting two Premier League titles together.
And despite the pair sharing memories of silverware and dominance of English football, it would seem Neville best remembers the former shot-stopper for his habit of parking illegally.
Discussing it on The Overlap with co-hosts Jamie Carragher, Roy Keane, Jill Scott and Ian Wright he explained how Barthez used to rack up plenty of tickets and pass them on to the club secretary at Man Utd.
He said: “I think Fabian Barthez had something like 160 parking tickets!
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“I always remember going to the general office and there was stacks of parking tickets.
“He just used to bring them in and give them to the general office.”
The expensive habit is something a lot of footballers are used to with many snapped being slapped with a fine for their parking.
Marcus Rashford is often seeing yellow envelopes stuck to the windows of his flash car collection with the 26-year-old falling victim to the wandering wardens.
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And his Man Utd and England teammate Luke Shaw racked up four tickets on one car after leaving his Lamborghini in situ for far too long.
While it’s not just the players who can’t avoid the double yellow lines with Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola also regularly picking up parking tickets.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
