Off Script: The Nevilles - a family affair
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Well, we've done a number of these Offscripts and they've been great fun so far. But this really is something different. Distinctly Offscript. Possibly the most famous sporting family from Manchester or Bury. Depends which way you look at it. And there are very, very few families that say that all three children represented their country. So I'm delighted to welcome, well, I would say welcome Gary, but I feel I've spoken to him more than ever these days. So Gary's just kind of out there somewhere.
What makes the Neville family one of the most famous sporting families?
But particularly, good afternoon to Phil and Tracey Neville as well. Good afternoon, all of you. Good afternoon, Geoff. First of all, the most important question is how... Tracey, I'll start with you. How are you?
I'm good, Jeff. I'm enjoying my mat leave. Got all the country enjoying it with me at the moment. And yeah, just taking up a little bit of space in my personal life, really. It's good. Enjoying it. And it's good that they've isolated us so I don't have to see these two on a regular basis. So it's a win-win for me.
Phil, how is it for you? Because obviously you've got a squad to maintain and stay in touch with. How difficult is it if you just operationally being manager of England women's team under these circumstances?
Well, I think we were in New York when it broke two and a half weeks ago. So we were isolated when we were in New York. So when we came back, we were fully aware of the severity of it. And I think the first week we've sort of like give them a little bit of breathing space and then they got into their training programs and we've been doing a lot of sort of like virtual video calls and I think the last probably three or four days is probably a little bit of a mental brick wall in terms of the training so we've had to find really innovative ways to keep them entertained engaged and I've got to say it's the most important thing is that everyone's safe and everyone stays away from this virus I think the training and the football is secondary really but we have had to be really innovative in the way that we've engaged with them
Now, so we don't talk over each other, we'll go in order of seniority in these sibling rivalry stakes. In Gary, obviously, senior. And then older of Tracy and Bill. Is Tracy, I'm right in saying?
Yeah.
12 minutes.
12 minutes.
Yeah, best 12 minutes of your life, I bet. So we'll go Gary, Tracy, and then Phil. Gary, let me start with you. Growing up in any household, you always have sibling rivalry when there's more than one child. What did it add to sibling rivalry, the fact that you were all sports people as well? Was there a sporting rivalry as well? And bear in mind, both of your parents, both very sporty as well.
Yeah, I mean, everything that we did was around sport. It felt like in the summer it was cricket, in the winter it was football. We always went to netball and rounders with my mum. She played netball in the winter and then obviously rounders in the summer. So we always, wherever we were, every single night it felt like we were out. And then obviously when we got to seven, eight and nine, we started playing ourselves. So it just integrated my mum and dad's sporting lives with obviously the fact that my mum and dad worked at Bury. And then obviously we were playing as well. It just felt like there wasn't a day where something wasn't going on. Me and Phil used to go and watch United when we were younger with my dad.
I don't know what Tracy was doing, to be fair, when we went to... I know she was left at home.
Jeff, this is what I have to put up with, you know. I'm like, second late in the family. It's all around Gary. It's all around Gary.
Tracy, I can tell you it's exactly the same for the rest of us at Sky Sports. There's nothing changed there. So what was it like for you then, Tracy, when your brothers were off doing their thing? What was it like for you?
I think me and my mum used to have a bit of quiet time. I were at netball most times a week and mum used to take me along. I think their sport probably took over more because there were two of them.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:28
2
What makes the Neville family one of the most famous sporting families?
0:28–4:29
3
How do the Neville siblings handle sibling rivalry in sports?
4:29–24:22
4
What impact did their parents have on the Neville siblings' athletic careers?
24:22–45:44
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