A radiator salesman called Phil Neville has received hundreds of abusive tweets intended for his footballer namesake. Neville, from Hadleigh in Suffolk, was bombarded with Twitter messages by World Cup fans unhappy with the ex-England player's BBC TV commentary during England's loss to Italy on Saturday. The punditry was criticised for being boring. On Monday, Phil Neville, the ex-England player and BBC pundit, said: "I loved social media until about 24 hours ago." He also admitted his TV role as a commentator for the BBC was "a lot harder than I thought it was going to be".
He was an absolute disaster, his namesake however has saved him from some ridicule, boring monotone voice, and master of stating the bleedin obvious. To think it was his first match in this role, and they pick a game of this importance, very strange, because his brother is brilliant doing the same thing
Some brilliant tweets at the real one. I particularly liked: "If I was stranded on a desert island with a can of corned beef and Phil Neville, I'd eat Phil Neville, and talk to the corned beef!"
