Gary Neville Slams ‘Not Authentic’ England Players For Hiding Behind Social Media Teams

Gary Neville criticised England players for sounding like automated robots on Twitter, asking "do any of the lads post themselves?"

"Either be on it yourself with your own thoughts or stay off it completely."

Frankly, if Neville thinks that top-level footballers don't sound this devoid of personality in real life, he hasn't heard many post-match interviews recently.

But of course players having their social media accounts managed for them is a common situation, generally so that they don't get themselves in trouble by saying the wrong thing (or simply because they aren't interested in using it but know they should to grow their profile).

However using a team to help manage a social media account doesn't always meaning avoiding problems.

Hart had to record a video the following morning explaining it was an admin error on the part of his social media team.

So perhaps Neville is right and players should just send their own messages, errors and all.

Now let's all look forward to Wednesday.

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