"Somebody was down injured and the ball had gone out of play. Suddenly it smacked past me and when I looked round he was walking away pretending it wasn't him. I said, 'Gaz, what did you kick the ball at me for?' He said, 'You've been there, Phil. You come to Old Trafford, you go over to your manager, you're drinking your drink, swanning around. I thought, I'm not having that.' So he smacked the ball at me. My mum and dad were laughing their heads off."(有人受伤倒下了,比赛暂停.突然球打到我身上,当我看周围的时候,他正从我身边走过,假装不是他干的.我说:"加里,你拿球踢我干嘛?"他说:" 你在那儿,菲尔.你来老特拉福德,你去了你们教练那里.你喝你的水,你悠闲自在的闲逛.我想我们不能那样了."所以他把球打到了我身上.我父母笑的前仰后合.)Up in the South Stand, it was a welcome note of levity.
"It was a difficult day for them, with my wife and kids all in Everton shirts," Neville adds. "We've played United twice now and they can't enjoy it, seeing their sons on opposite sides. I suppose the perfect scenario for them would have been United winning 2-1 and me scoring for Everton."(对于我父母来讲简直太难受了,和我妻子和孩子都穿着太妃糖的衣服坐在那里.我们已经和曼联打过两场了现在,而他们看着他们的儿子在对立的两面,都不能享受这比赛.我猜想最好的情况是看到曼联2-1赢得比赛,而我为太妃糖打进那个进球.)
Before the season began it was the one fixture he thought he might feel apprehensive about. After all, he played 386 times for United, was a member of the fabled 1992-3 youth team, and first went to Old Trafford as a nipper:
Mike Duxbury belting down the wing against Aston Villa is his earliest memory.
"Surprisingly, I wasn't nervous at all beforehand, I was just so excited. It's such a great place to play football. But I had this premeditated thing that I didn't want to make the occasion about me, I wasn't going to go round shaking everyone's hand, because there's nothing worse than when old players come back and they're always in your face. I said hello to the kit men, because you always get close to the kit men at clubs, but that was it. And in the tunnel I was just focusing, but I could feel these eyes next to me, Giggsy just staring at me. Then Scholesy shouted 'smile' and after that I couldn't stop laughing, It broke the tension.(我不想走过去和他们握手,因为没有比和老队友面对面更糟糕的事情了.在球员通道的时候,我成为了焦点,但是我能感觉到在我身旁的那些眼睛,吉格斯就一直看着我.然后斯科尔斯对我说"微笑",之后我就一直情不自禁的笑.它打破了当时紧张的气氛.)
"The United fans were great. They gave me a right good reception, although I don't think I've ever given them a reason not to. And the Everton fans were great as well. They were the ones who started chanting my name. They've been behind me from the moment I arrived here.' His arrival cost Everton 3.5m, one of the better bits of business in the summer transfer market. The cogs were set in motion when Moyes met Neville Neville at a function, and said that if his younger son was thinking of leaving Old Trafford, he would love him to head westbound along the M62.
"My dad said, 'He's a Man United player. You'll have to speak to Alex Ferguson'.(我爸爸对莫耶斯说,他是曼联的队员,你应该去问弗格森.)But when he told me that at the start of the summer, from then on I was thinking about Everton. Ask my wife. We were on holiday in Barbados and I said to her, 'I think I need a change'. She said, 'What's wrong with Barbados?' I said "No, a change of club.' She said, 'Where do you fancy going?' I said, 'I really fancy Everton'.'
"It was a difficult day for them, with my wife and kids all in Everton shirts," Neville adds. "We've played United twice now and they can't enjoy it, seeing their sons on opposite sides. I suppose the perfect scenario for them would have been United winning 2-1 and me scoring for Everton."(对于我父母来讲简直太难受了,和我妻子和孩子都穿着太妃糖的衣服坐在那里.我们已经和曼联打过两场了现在,而他们看着他们的儿子在对立的两面,都不能享受这比赛.我猜想最好的情况是看到曼联2-1赢得比赛,而我为太妃糖打进那个进球.)
Before the season began it was the one fixture he thought he might feel apprehensive about. After all, he played 386 times for United, was a member of the fabled 1992-3 youth team, and first went to Old Trafford as a nipper:
Mike Duxbury belting down the wing against Aston Villa is his earliest memory.
"Surprisingly, I wasn't nervous at all beforehand, I was just so excited. It's such a great place to play football. But I had this premeditated thing that I didn't want to make the occasion about me, I wasn't going to go round shaking everyone's hand, because there's nothing worse than when old players come back and they're always in your face. I said hello to the kit men, because you always get close to the kit men at clubs, but that was it. And in the tunnel I was just focusing, but I could feel these eyes next to me, Giggsy just staring at me. Then Scholesy shouted 'smile' and after that I couldn't stop laughing, It broke the tension.(我不想走过去和他们握手,因为没有比和老队友面对面更糟糕的事情了.在球员通道的时候,我成为了焦点,但是我能感觉到在我身旁的那些眼睛,吉格斯就一直看着我.然后斯科尔斯对我说"微笑",之后我就一直情不自禁的笑.它打破了当时紧张的气氛.)
"The United fans were great. They gave me a right good reception, although I don't think I've ever given them a reason not to. And the Everton fans were great as well. They were the ones who started chanting my name. They've been behind me from the moment I arrived here.' His arrival cost Everton 3.5m, one of the better bits of business in the summer transfer market. The cogs were set in motion when Moyes met Neville Neville at a function, and said that if his younger son was thinking of leaving Old Trafford, he would love him to head westbound along the M62.
"My dad said, 'He's a Man United player. You'll have to speak to Alex Ferguson'.(我爸爸对莫耶斯说,他是曼联的队员,你应该去问弗格森.)But when he told me that at the start of the summer, from then on I was thinking about Everton. Ask my wife. We were on holiday in Barbados and I said to her, 'I think I need a change'. She said, 'What's wrong with Barbados?' I said "No, a change of club.' She said, 'Where do you fancy going?' I said, 'I really fancy Everton'.'
