Manchester United legends Gary Neville and Roy Keane have accused Italian groups they confronted within the Champions League of doping.
Both Neville and Keane felt a number of the sides they got here up towards in Europe throughout the mid-2000s had an unlawful edge over them. They shared their suspicions on the most recent episode of their Stick to Football podcast.
Asked concerning the hardest Champions League video games they confronted, Neville replied: “There are a couple that stick in my mind, and I’m going to say this very [carefully] for legal reasons. I think there were a few teams we played against who weren’t clean. We thought it at the time.”
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Co-host Jamie Carragher then interjected to say: “Must be the Italian teams.” Neville continued: “Honestly, I remember me and Giggsy in the mid-2000s, we were fit and I just thought…”
Keane backed up what his former team-mate was saying, explaing: “We performed towards sure groups the place I might be strolling off and can be completely shattered.
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“And I would be looking at players I played against, a couple of Italian teams, and they looked like they not even played a match. But why can’t we talk about that? Are we not [allowed]?”
“I mean, you can’t accuse people,” stated Neville, to which Carragher chuckled: “You just have!” United confronted a number of Italian golf equipment in Europe all through the noughties.
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They performed Juventus in 2002/03, AC Milan in 04/05, 06/07 and 09/10, Roma in 06/07 and 07/08, and Inter Milan in 08/09. Wrapping up his argument, Neville concluded: “My point is when you look back at what came out after in cycling and other sports with doctors, you do think.
“We thought it on the time. Physically we have been match, we weren’t drinkers. ‘That’s not proper, there’s something not proper’.
“I came off the pitch against an Italian team and I thought ‘that’s not right, that’s not right I’m sorry’. And I know that a couple of the other lads in the mid-2000s thought exactly the same thing.”