{"id":1095219,"date":"2019-06-23T19:35:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T18:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1095219"},"modified":"2019-06-23T19:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T18:02:59","slug":"gary-neville-liverpool-spice-boys","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/gary-neville-liverpool-spice-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Neville aims dig at Liverpool ‘spice boys’ amid Jesse Lingard debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gary Neville believes Manchester United dominated the second half of the 1990s because they eradicated the drinking culture from their dressing room, unlike Liverpool’s ‘Spice Boys’.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the 1995\/96 season to 1999\/00 the Red Devils clinched four Premier League titles and Neville has attributed a key reason behind their domestic dominance to a healthier lifestyle away from the pitch.<\/p>\n

Neville’s ‘Spice Boys’ dig: Five things to know…<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  1. Neville believes some Liverpool players “were still going out and drinking” towards the end of the 1990s.<\/li>\n
  2. He is adamant Man Utd’s success from 1995 to 2000 was\u00a0“purely based on fitness”.<\/li>\n
  3. United won four league titles, two FA Cups and a Champions League trophy in that period.<\/li>\n
  4. Neville added that when he came through the United Academy, there was still a\u00a0drinking culture at the club – which was the norm in English football.<\/li>\n
  5. But he says the dressing room soon suppressed that unhealthy lifestyle and adopted a more rigorous training mentality.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Emerging from United’s esteemed Academy at the start of the 1990s, the\u00a0Class of ’92 right-back has revealed there was still a drinking culture when he was coming through the ranks, but says it was soon quashed as Sir Alex Ferguson’s side went on to achieve unprecedented success during his formative years.<\/p>\n

    Speaking\u00a0at the\u00a0Soccer Science Conference\u00a0at Hotel Football in Manchester, Neville told Training Ground Guru<\/a>: “When we came through there was still a drinking culture Saturday-Wednesday-Saturday, every club was doing it.<\/p>\n

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    “We stopped, we didn\u2019t do it, and we won four out of our first five league titles purely based on fitness because the rest of the clubs were still drinking.”<\/p>\n

    Neville then suggested a Liverpool team that included the likes of Jamie Redknapp, David James, Steve McManaman, Robbie Fowler and Jason McAteer, had been unable to match United for a clear reason.<\/p>\n

    He added: “Think of Liverpool and the Spice Boys, they didn\u2019t get that nickname for nothing. They were still going out and drinking. We weren\u2019t.”<\/p>\n