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13th December 2016
12:40pm GMT

"When you're a young player and your making mistakes or breaking into the team, you do your training, you work as hard as you possibly can, you play on a Saturday and you say nothing. "Until you've got a couple of seasons under your belt then you can start coming out shouting your mouth off or having a go at pundits."His argument doesn't really make a lot of sense. What Karius says in an interview has no direct correlation with his performances. He can work hard in training and take part in an interview, the two aren't mutually exclusive. The days when you can tell an inexperienced professional footballer to "shut up" are long gone, and the Liverpool 'keeper was fully entitled to reply to Neville's criticism. https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/807329975506497537 Sutton took Neville's argument apart in his own unique way. "Where Phil was wrong is he's basically saying players shouldn't do interviews," Sutton said on BBC Radio 5 Live on Monday night.
"That was the way I read his comments. When you’re young, breaking into a team, train hard, work hard, say nothing until you’ve got a couple of seasons under your belt then you can start shouting your mouth off. "Well, what are Phil’s criteria when players should be allowed to speak? Does that mean no one from the lower leagues is allowed or do you have to have 50 caps, 100 caps, do you have to win the Premier League? I don't get it. "Karius, what did Karius do? He was asked a question, it was a 50-minute interview. I think he was asked a couple of questions and it took what 30, 50 seconds and he gave an opinion and Gary Neville copped the hump.https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/807747715933306880
"That is the long and the short of it and then Phil Neville backing his brother up saying 'nobody should be allowed to do interviews until you’re a certain age'. And, here’s hypocrisy for you, they work in the media. The Nevilles are totally out of order with this one. "Karius should be commended for doing the interview. Then Gary Neville reacted and, let’s get it right, that was a bit precious of Gary. Then Phil reacted didn't he, I mean they're like the Mitchell brothers, aren’t they, the pair of them."Sutton speaks a lot of sense. Apart from the Mitchell brothers comparison.
"The Neville brothers are more like the Mitchell brothers"
Are Gary & Phil the new Grant & Phil?!@Chris_Sutton73 on #LFC 'keeper critics pic.twitter.com/Rr9x7ozyKR — BBC 5 live Sport (@5liveSport) December 12, 2016
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