Joey Barton, Matt Le Tissier, Nigel Farage and Jeremy Kyle call out Gary Neville over his flag admission video posted earlier this week.
Each of them have given a speech, which have racked up thousands of likes as well as views, condemning Gary Neville for comments perceived as targeting middle-aged white men who display patriotic symbols like the Union Jack, blaming them for societal division.
Barton called Neville a “virtue-signalling” hypocrite, detached from his audience, and challenged him to a debate.
Le Tissier noted Neville’s remarks alienated his paying fanbase and suggested media bias protects him.
Farage argued Neville unfairly blamed his viewers, not extremists, for division.
Kyle accused Neville of hypocrisy, profiting from working-class fans while criticising them, and ignoring issues like a pro-Palestinian march after a terrorist attack.
They all portrayed Neville as out-of-touch and unfairly targeting a demographic, take a look further down in the article below…
Gary Neville @Joey7Barton pic.twitter.com/tohBGf0cHf
— Common Sense with Joey Barton (@Common_SensePod) October 7, 2025
Joey Barton said via YouTube: “In his, obviously, isolated world he lives in, he’s in the kind of ivory tower position of being shuttled into a Sky studio, back behind a wall in whatever sprawling estate he’s got, they’re saying he’s worth between £50m and £70m. People are telling me that Overlap earns all them £20,000 a pop, they’re sponsored by ARNE now so surely ARNE’s going to be delighted with Gary saying that because I would imagine their target audience is white, middle-class men. It’s definitely not fella’s called Jihad, white, middle-class men called Jihad. I can’t imagine there being that many of them around.
“But Gary’s got himself into this virtue signalling nonsense. We have this pillock, Neville, and he’s crossed over with me because as I said to him and Rio last night, I’m more than welcome to debate both of you. Let’s roll for two hours, discuss any topic. Gary sat in a room with me when we did The Edge podcast, you don’t need to be scared of me, but intellectually I think you’ve got a lot to answer for here.
“I don’t think Gary Neville has thought about who are his audience. Because I’m looking at it going, you’ve just said people who like the Union Jack, people who are patriotic to show their country’s flag in, in this instance, the country he’s from and represented 85 times at international level…just factor in if he said somebody with brown skin or somebody with black skin, there’d be an absolute outrage about it.
“People like this, gaslighting you all the time, saying to you: ‘no, no you’re a racist for thinking that. You’re far right for thinking that.’ There’s a synagogue attacked and we get a f*****g d***head footballer, absolute idiot, whose ar**hole is for rent to the highest bidder.
“If that’s the Qataris, he’ll forget anything to do with human rights to go and take the Qatari money. He is a whore who is open for exploitation as he has shown this weekend with his stupid comments.
“Now, if he was a man of the people, like he says he was, and if he was really in touch with his fanbase or the people that support his shows or his football club or some of his businesses, then he would know middle-aged white men in this country aren’t the problem.
“Sticking a few flags up and being petrified that your daughters or your granddaughters or your wife are going to be accosted in a changing room by an illegal invader is not a f*****g far right position.”
Full response to Gary Neville in case you missed the stream last night here:https://t.co/lUy2h9leG9 pic.twitter.com/58X9U25jGl
— Joey Barton (@Joey7Barton) October 7, 2025
Matt Le Tissier said: “He’s basically attacked the demographic of people that are paying his wages, which is a bit strange.
“I think it depends on what side of the argument you fall on and whether your side of the argument suits the agenda of the current media.
“Which I think, you know, for the large part is very left leaning, so if you’re slightly right leaning you won’t be given the good graces to make mistakes other people will be given.
“Yeah, I think they’ll stand by him and support him, yeah
“I mean, they stood by Jamie Carragher when he spat at a young girl out of the back of his car.
“It is not quite as bad as that, so I think Gary’s got a pretty fair argument there if they try and get rid of him.”
When asked if @SkySports will back @GNev2 Matt Le Tissier said “well they stood by @Carra23 when he spat at a young girl out of the back of his car”
Good point @mattletiss7 👏 pic.twitter.com/P8YWSFwY4C
— Grifty (@TheGriftReport) October 7, 2025
Nigel Farage said on a video: “Following those awful murders in Manchester, Gary Neville, much capped England footballer, highly paid, Sky Sports presenter said this… *plays video*
“Hang on a second. He’s blaming middle-aged white men, the people that actually pay for Sky Sports, pay his salary.
“He’s blaming them for all the division, not some evil, crazed, mad Islamist who went out to kill innocent people.
“I tell you what, this Gary Neville is so detached from reality, so detached from the average football fan, it is not true. I’m amazed that Sky Sports keep him on. What do you think?”
We need to talk about Gary Neville.
He is insulting the same people who pay his wages. pic.twitter.com/zU3jp1X3Ec
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) October 7, 2025
Jeremy Kyle while on Talk TV: “I’m sorry — I know I tell you every week I’m gonna come here and I’m gonna be calm. We’re being told that we’re being turned against each other mainly by angry middle-aged white men who deem it OK to put up flags.
“I’m not gonna sit here and say stick to football, everybody’s entitled to their opinion, but why am I surrounded by people like Neville who have made millions on the back of working-class people — people they’re supposed to represent, people they’re supposed to respect?
“Does he actually believe that middle-aged white men raising flags is causing division in this country?
“Three hours after those poor, poor Jewish people on Yom Kippur were murdered by that terrorist called Jihad… a protest march not three hours later, not a mile away, with people waving Palestinian flags and shouting obscenities — but Gary Neville wouldn’t mention that, would he?
“But if you stood up and said it’s disgraceful that these people are marching and inciting violence, people like Neville would say, ‘Oh but it’s unfair.’ But it’s alright to attack middle-aged white men.
“I tell you what Gary Neville, do two things: take your fortune and give it to every immigrant and every group that you think isn’t treated well in this country — do that, but you won’t, will you?
“Or go and live somewhere, you numpty, where there are immigrants on the streets and where your teenage daughters might not feel safe, rather than behind the gates of your massive mansion in Chester.”
Jeremy Kyle explodes with fury at Gary Neville’s ‘angry White men’ comments.
“Why am I surrounded by people like Neville who have made millions on the back of working class people… I think it’s an absolute outrage.”@jkyleofficial pic.twitter.com/xKzOmzwIdc
— Talk (@TalkTV) October 6, 2025
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