Phil Neville responds after "two foot" tackle comment on Match of the Day sparks uproar

Flash foreign player versus no-nonsense English defending: Phil Neville has walked into the eye of the Twitter storm

Published: Monday, 26 January 2015 at 10:16 am

It was a pass that for one moment made the FA Cup look like it had squelched out of the muddy pitch of history into the 21st century. During Arsenal's 3-2 win over Brighton, midfielder Tomas Rosicky flicked his head one way and the ball the other, playing in teammate Mesut Ozil for a goal. What grace!

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Except Match of the Day 2 pundit Phil Neville wasn't impressed: "If that was a training session and somebody did that I'd be first over there and I'd probably look to two-foot him or take him out of the game."

"If somebody did that in training to me, winding me up, I would be straight in there," he added. "I'd smash him."

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James Gill

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