Its top secret- Phil Neville

Last updated : 05 March 2011 By Daily Mail

I was massively into cricket when I was younger and Sir Ian Botham was my idol. He was a natural entertainer. I used to play in the same team as Freddie Flintoff and he had all the same qualities as Botham.

Which other sportsman would you like to be?

A cricketer. It's my favourite sport and I played for Lancashire's second XI when I was 15. When I finish playing football, I'm going to join a local club.

Career highlight?

Winning the Champions League in 1999. I still get slaughtered for being the first one down the touchline when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored the second. The celebrations could never be recreated.

... and the worst moment?

Not being selected for France 98. That was probably my best chance of going to a World Cup and to say I was heartbroken would be putting it mildly.

If your house was burning down, what one possession would you save?

Can it be two? As long as all my pictures of my wife, Julie, and kids, Harvey and Isabella, were safe, I'd go for Sky+ and my bed. I have a sleep every afternoon.

What's the best advice you 've ever been given?

Work hard and enjoy it. That was the motto at Manchester United and I have always lived by those rules.

Favourite karaoke song?

Hey Jude, by the Beatles. I had to sing it when I signed for Everton in2005 and drank a bottle of wine to get through the ordeal. That wentdown better than when I sang Jingle Bells at that year's Christmasparty. I was pelted with potatoes.

Three most listened to songs on your ipod?

The Storm Is Over, R Kelly; Happiness, Alexis Jordan; The Time, Black Eyed Peas (right).

Last book you read?

The 90-minute Manager: Lessons from the Dugout by David Bolchover and Chris Brady. It was pretty average. Before that, I read the autobiography of the American football coach Lou Holtz - brilliant.

Favourite pre-match meal?

Ham omelette and toast. When I started out, it used to be soup and bread roll followed by chicken, beans and another bread roll finished off with a bowl of custard. I've no idea how I used to play on such an amount.

Can you cook? Best dish?

The extent of my culinary skills is toast and cereal. If Julie is away, I'll go to my mum's. If my mum is away, I'll go to my grandma's. I can't cook and won't cook.

Your Favourite holiday destination?

Barbados, we've been the last seven years.

In a film of your life, who wou ld you like to play you ?

Brad Pitt!

Tell us a secret...

Seamus Coleman asked me to put him in touch with a rep from adidas, because he wanted some new boots. I gave him a number and he called up blissfully unaware that he was ringing David Moyes. Needless to say he didn't get the two pairs of studs he was after.

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Source: Daily Mail

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