E170: Gary Neville: From Football Legend To Building A Business Empire

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Gary Neville is a broadcaster, serial business founder and owner, and a winner of every possible club football title in his 20 years playing for Manchester United - with 2 Champions League medals, 8 Premier League medals, 3 FA Cup medals, a Club World Cup medal, and 2 League cup medals.

In one of his most emotional and heartfelt interviews to date, Gary opens up about precisely what drove him and his similarly successful siblings on - his brother is the England-capped footballer Philip Neville, while his sister is the former Head Coach of England Netball, Tracey Neville - despite their very humble origins.

A legend of Manchester United and a former captain of the club, he goes into detail about precisely what made the team culture of the Sir Alex Ferguson years so strong, why its so sorely lacking now, why he’s felt the need to speak out more on social and political issues, and why everything he does is for the city he grew up in and calls home. Even after all these years, he’s still bringing glory back to Manchester.

Topics:

How did you and your family become so successful in sport?
What the cost of your drive?
You’re self disparaging about your skills
Alex Ferguson’s mindset
What you have you learnt from Sir Alex about culture?
Why are Manchester United failing now?
Your businesses
Politics
Mental health
Your dad
The next 10 years
If happiness was a recipe
The last guest question

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Transcript

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0:00.0	That's making me a little bit upset.
0:05.0	YAY NEVER!
0:07.0	Fantastic, incredible man.
0:08.0	It's the owners of that business, it's really simple.
0:10.0	Joke.
0:13.0	One of the things that people don't know about you
0:15.0	is just the scale of your business portfolio.
0:18.0	It's quite honestly mental.
0:20.0	The only thing you can ever do in life is work as hard as you possibly can never give in.
0:24.0	What is the cost?
0:25.0	I basically collapsed at the floor another fit.
0:28.0	I went into a hospital at Chex and then found that I need to slow down a little bit.
0:32.0	I had stopped doing the things that kept me well and I just run myself into the ground.
0:36.0	So I knew that that would point then.
0:38.0	I needed to see something.
0:40.0	Menches united are failing.
0:42.0	I do feel sorry for the current players and that won't go down well with a lot of men's units.
0:46.0	These players got onto the pitch now and they feel along.
0:49.0	But that's where I am a little bit critical of Cristiano.
0:51.0	You're the star.
0:52.0	Now's that time to throw in your arms around.
0:54.0	Now's the time to make sure you read those people.
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