Gary Neville says former team-mate Fabien Barthez racked up greater than 150 parking tickets throughout his Manchester United days.
The Frenchman spent three years as United’s No. 1 goalkeeper, and regardless of successful two Premier League titles in that point, he is most likely finest remembered for his spectacular chrome dome and producing the occasional clanger. That stated, Neville remembers him finest for his blunders off the pitch, somewhat than on it.
Speaking on the Stick To Football podcast, the 49-year-old former defender claims Barthez used to stroll into coaching with piles of parking tickets and hand them over to the membership secretary, including there have been “stacks” of them on the desk at reception.
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“I think Fabian Barthez had something like 160 parking tickets,” Neville recalled. “I always remember going to the general office and there was stacks of parking tickets.
“He simply used to carry them in and provides them to the overall workplace.”
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Barthez, 52, signed for United from Monaco in 2000, a yr after Peter Schmeichel’s departure. He’d been France’s first alternative keeper for a number of years at that time, and starred of their wonderful 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 campaigns, so hopes have been excessive he may fill his predecessor’s humungous gloves.
Initially indicators have been good. Fans beloved his eccentricity and he backed it up with a string of spectacular performances, however then the errors began creeping in. Towards the tip of his third season he was dropped in favour of Roy Carroll, and that summer time he was loaned to Marseille, earlier than making the transfer everlasting a yr later.
He remained France’s No. 1 keeper till his worldwide retirement in 2006, and hung up his gloves altogether in 2007, following a brief spell at Nantes.