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UTD UNSCRIPTED: DAYS I'LL REMEMBER ALL MY LIFE...
Gary NevillebyGary Neville13 February 2019 14:00
At the time, I was on £29.50 a week, plus £10 expenses. That's what we all got paid.
Becks, Butty, me, all of us. Nobody was on anything different. Becks was on the bench, Butty was on the bench. It was a £2,000 bonus per player if we got through the tie and you'd played both games.
If you got on the pitch in one game but not the next, then it was £1,500. It was £1,000 if you'd been in the squad at all.
So we travelled over to Moscow for the return leg and we were stood at the side of the bench. It was 0-0 again. It went to penalties.
Between us we've got £3,500 riding on this shootout.
I'm on for £1,500 and it was a grand each for Becks and Butty. We're thinking: “Never mind the result, this is 40 weeks' wages!”
We were going to put payments down on cars as we got back to Manchester. We went 2-0 up after Torpedo missed their first two penalties…and we still lost!
Brucey, Choccy and Pally all missed. Some of the worst penalties I've ever seen.
In the dressing room afterwards, the three of us are virtually crying in the corner because we'd lost three and a half grand to Torpedo Moscow. I'd lost my Peugeot GTI. I think Becks was ordering a Maserati with his.
To this day, Brucey, Choccy and Pally owe us cars.
Gary NevillebyGary Neville13 February 2019 14:00
At the time, I was on £29.50 a week, plus £10 expenses. That's what we all got paid.
Becks, Butty, me, all of us. Nobody was on anything different. Becks was on the bench, Butty was on the bench. It was a £2,000 bonus per player if we got through the tie and you'd played both games.
If you got on the pitch in one game but not the next, then it was £1,500. It was £1,000 if you'd been in the squad at all.
So we travelled over to Moscow for the return leg and we were stood at the side of the bench. It was 0-0 again. It went to penalties.
Between us we've got £3,500 riding on this shootout.
I'm on for £1,500 and it was a grand each for Becks and Butty. We're thinking: “Never mind the result, this is 40 weeks' wages!”
We were going to put payments down on cars as we got back to Manchester. We went 2-0 up after Torpedo missed their first two penalties…and we still lost!
Brucey, Choccy and Pally all missed. Some of the worst penalties I've ever seen.
In the dressing room afterwards, the three of us are virtually crying in the corner because we'd lost three and a half grand to Torpedo Moscow. I'd lost my Peugeot GTI. I think Becks was ordering a Maserati with his.
To this day, Brucey, Choccy and Pally owe us cars.
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