Danny Mills

Fri 25 March 2022 17:45, UK

Danny Mills has hit back at Gary Neville’s “childish” criticism of the Man United squad for being pictured out socialising despite the club’s poor form.

Speaking exclusively to Football Insider, the ex-Man City and Leeds United defender claimed Neville was taking a “cheap shot” at players like Marcus Rashford.

Rashford, 23, was pictured this week (X March) out in Dubai watching a boxing bout between Regis Prograis and Tyrone McKenna in Dubai while Ralf Rangick was spotted in Barbados watching the final day of the England cricket team’s test match draw with the West Indies.

United legend Neville took to Twitter on Monday (21 March) to blast players for their “tone deaf” tour of global sporting events.

“There’s a huge difference between going to a nightclub at a VIP table with bottles of champagne and sparklers where it looks like you are celebrating than going out for a meal with family or friends or going to a sporting event,” Mills told Football Insider‘s Connor Whitley.

“What are you supposed to do? You need some time to decompress, some time to clear your head. Why shouldn’t you go out for a meal?

“Yes, don’t go out celebrating or falling out of nightclubs because that looks like you don’t care.

“If you just want to go out for a meal why wouldn’t you? That’s quite normal.

“I’ve got two sportsmen as sons and if they have a bad day am I going to say ‘Go to your room, you’re not coming out to dinner with us tonight’?

“It’s a bit childish. Does Gary Neville say to his kids after they’ve had a bad day at school ‘Go to your room, you’re not having any dinner’?

“You say ‘Ok, it hasn’t worked. Let’s do what we normally do and talk about it tomorrow’. It doesn’t mean you don’t care and it hasn’t affected you.

“It’s a cheap shot from Gary Neville. Those players all went out and got hammered. It just wasn’t on social media and there weren’t loads of pictures being taken.”

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