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Friday, July 27, 2007

Phil Neville a fan of the American way

PHIL NEVILLE is just like anybody else in America. Well, apart from the 56 England caps won during 12 years at the pinnacle of Premier League football, with the medals to prove it.
An honours haul almost identical to his good friend David Beckham, the man whose soccer celebrity is so super-sized over here that his is the only name available on the back of a replica shirt in his club shop.
Yet wandering though hotel lobbys and restaurants unnoticed and making his way down the sands of Venice Beach without so much as having to stop for a mobile phone picture, the Everton training gear just isn’t a big enough clue to Neville’s stature in the game.
Which is why, despite being a long-time team-mate of Beckham during Manchester United’s glorious decade of dominance, Neville sat in the stands of LA Galaxy on Tuesday night in relative anonymity.

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