Jamie Carragher exposed Gary Neville's agenda that is quickly losing him credibility as a pundit

After so long in the wilderness, it appears Gary Neville is now unable to see the wood from the trees at Manchester United.

The former Red Devils captain was at it once more on Sunday evening as he and his Sky Sports colleagues, that included Jamie Carragher, picked the bones out of another damaging and demoralising loss to local rivals Manchester City at Old Trafford.

The bleatings, as he clashed with Liverpool legend Carragher, were familiar ones that centred around the Glazer family, their absentee ownership and the general lack of stability that has caused at Old Trafford in recent years.

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"Are we going to keep blaming the kids in the class or are we going to blame the headteacher?" was one of Neville's retorts to Carragher's questioning of Erik ten Hag's style of play; one that saw them fail to get close to their most fierce of enemy during a game they lost 3-0, at home.

It's a regular trope from Neville, who never wastes an opportunity to turn his ire on the Glazers whenever United stumble. So much so, in fact, that it has become a running joke among Liverpool circles whenever their rivals at the top of English football stumble. When the conflict is so historic , schadenfreude is a powerful intoxicant for football supporters.

For Carragher's part, he knows all about what it is like to try and perform at the elite level when your club's American owners are detested but the legendary centre-back won't ever have ducked behind Tom Hicks and George Gillett whenever things were turning sour on the pitch around the turn of the 2010s.

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