Gary Neville admits why he and Jamie Carragher still clash now away from Sky cameras

Gary Neville has admitted that the reason why he still clashes with Jamie Carragher is because they are too similar - explaining exactly why he wouldn't want to share a room with the Liverpool legend

Gary Neville has explained exactly why he clashes so much with Jamie Carragher, despite no longer being fierce rivals on the pitch.

A Manchester United stalwart in his playing days, Neville represented the Red Devils 598 times during his 19-year footballing career - lifting eight Premier League titles, three FA Cups and a couple of Champions Leagues among an array of other trophies. Bootle-born Carragher, meanwhile, spent the entirety of his own career playing for United's fierce rivals in Liverpool.

The solid centre-half racked up 737 appearances for the Reds, however his list of accolades if far shorter due to the dominance United had on English football under Sir Alex Ferguson. And while some may assume that Neville and Carragher may not get along because of their allegiances – despite their obvious camaraderie on Sky Sports – it's actually their respective characters which means they don't always see eye-to-eye in the punditry world.

Speaking in a recent instalment of The Overlap with Sky Sports, Neville was asked who he would hate to share a room with out of his fellow co-hosts. To which the 49-year-old responded: "I think I would be stitched up because you can’t separate Roy [Keane] and Ian [Wright] - so they would definitely room together.

"Which would mean I’d be put with Jamie Carragher who is definitely the last person I’d want. What is it about Carra that means I wouldn’t want to room with him? I just don’t want to listen to a minute more of him than I need to.

"He is constantly ‘on’ and I’m sure he'd say the same about me, but I think sometimes intensity meeting intensity doesn't work. Basically, I need a little bit more Yin and Yang, rather than what we are which is more Yin and Yin."

Despite failing to agree on a number of things, Nev and Carra earlier this year shared similar stances in a belief that England's manager should be homegrown. Following Gareth Southgate's resignation in July, Neville told Sky Sports: "Over the years we have had every type of manager - the fashionable, the international manager, best English managers, people who have come through the ranks with youth teams.

"There is no science in terms of what works and there are obvious contenders. Graham Potter and Eddie Howe will get mentioned and I think it will definitely be an English manager. Moving to St George's Park was to promote and develop English coaches. To take that away from an English manager and give it to an international manager would be wrong."

Meanwhile, Carragher shared: "I'm not a believer in foreign managers managing England. It's nothing against foreigners - what foreign managers and players have done to the Premier League is amazing. It's basically made what our league is today which is the envy of the world.

"But we're not an emerging nation, we're England and I know we've only won one trophy but other countries on our level - Italy, Spain, Germany - they don't have foreign managers. We don't need a foreign manager, we've done it before." Former Chelsea and Bayern Munich boss Thomas Tuchel was ultimately named Southgate's successor last week, and will hope to guide the Three Lions to glory come the 2026 World Cup.

And while Neville has admitted that he will support the German, he has said that questions need to be asked of the Football Association for appointing a foreign manager. He told Sky Sports News: "I do think we are damaging ourselves accepting Thomas Tuchel is better than any of the other English coaches.

"We are in a rut when it comes to English coaching. English coaching is one of the least respected big nations in Europe when it comes to taking charge of a football team."

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