Dave Prentice: Does Superman wear Phil Neville pyjamas?

05 November 2010 06:00
* READ the top 10 Phil Neville Twitter 'facts' here[LNB] PERHAPS it's just as well that Phil Neville has more of his career behind him than ahead.[LNB]The modest Blues captain stopped buying the papers last week because he was embarrassed by the publicity given to his shackling of man of the moment, Gareth Bale.[LNB] So quite what he'd make of becoming an internet phenomenon is, as yet, unrecorded.[LNB]In case you missed it, Neville became the third most tweeted-about subject in the world this week.[LNB]More people mentioned the 33-year-old footballer on Twitter than wrote about Barack Obama, Kanye West's embarrassing indiscretions or even the US mid-term elections.[LNB]Everton wags sparked the hijack after Spurs star Gareth Bale's brilliant performance against Inter Milan on Tuesday.[LNB]They noted that only last week Neville had stopped Bale from wreaking similar havoc on Everton - and started joking about their skipper's superpowers.[LNB]The campaign took off like one of The Incredible Hulk's rage fuelled leaps.

Source: Liverpool_Echo