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Classic View From The Boundary On The TMS Podcast

Hello, this is Jonathan Agnew, and thanks for downloading the TestMatch Special Podcast,

welcome along to another delight from our 40 from 40 series listing back to some of our

favourite, View From The Boundary Interviews From The Last Four Decades.

Today we're heading back to 2013, really, and a memorable interview with one of English

football's most respected voices. In a trophy laden playing career that lasted almost

20 years, Gary Neville played for Manchester United 400 times and represented his country

on 85 occasions. Of course, he and his brother Phil started at Old Trafford Football Stadium,

but they could easily be breaking records of the cricket ground down the road, having

been hugely promising batsmen in their teens. Well, Gary joined me in the TMS commentary

box at the Old Trafford at Iron Ho best during an Ashes Test for a really fascinating

chat, beginning of course with his love of cricket.

I mean, it was typical as a kid football in the winter, cricket in the summer. It meant

me a member of the way we would switch just like that and love each sport equally and

played with the likes of Ronnie Arrani, or Gensrani Arrani against Michael Vaughan, and

a couple of other laden, it was good. It tougher me up for cricket, because as a 14-year-old,

you play in football, you play against people your own age, whereas at cricket you play

in the first team at Greenmount, you're coming up against professional cricket in Green

cricket. Yeah, and it's a harsh environment, and for 14-year-old it is, you know, you're

getting dubbed once. Can't believe it. And a couple of my senior teammates came and said,

you won't do that against some will you, and sort of, it's tough for me up and everything

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