Gary Neville makes surprise claim about brother Phil as they recall infamous tunnel moment

Some brothers are inseparable, some are distant – and others simply don’t know where the other one lives. Gary Neville grew up alongside his sibling Phil , but currently is not able to send him a Christmas card. The former Manchester United defenders appeared on NBC Sports in what was their first-ever joint television outing. Presenter Rebecca Lowe pointed out the historic moment when she opened the show, as Gary revealed when he and former MLS boss Phil last met. “We’ve not see each other for three years either,” he explained, before Phil then claimed: “He doesn’t know where I live!” “Correct, he actually doesn’t,” Lowe confirmed. “He actually asked Phil, ‘Whereabouts do you live?’ before we came on air.” Nevilles react to tunnel encounter Gary and Phil played 287 times together for England and United, of which 263 came at club level. The latter left Old Trafford in 2005 for Premier League rivals Everton , and they were then opponents on five occasions. One match in February 2010, a 3-1 win for Everton at their old home Goodison Park, saw the brothers have an awkward moment in the tunnel before kick-off. As the respective captains, they stood at the front of their teams when waiting to walk out onto the pitch. However, they didn’t say a word to each other, with both Gary and Phil being more concentrated on the match than their sibling. “I played for 16 years at United, and never once shook the hand of another player in the tunnel,” Gary said when watching it back. “I wasn’t going to start getting towards the end of my career in 2009, I was like a year away from finishing. “It just wasn’t right, it’s not what we did. Maybe it was the Roy Keane mentality from that time, the Sir Alex Ferguson mentality. “We were going out to play a serious game of football, no distractions. You don’t be talking to your opponents.” “I came down the tunnel second, Gary was already there,” said Phil. “I didn’t know how to play it.” He added: “When I was going down the tunnel, I thought, ‘We don’t shake hands, we don’t really hug, but I wonder if there’s just a nod’, and there wasn’t a nod. “As I went round the side, Tim Howard went, ‘Phil, what’s going on?’ He thought there was a family feud or something. No, it’s just what we did.” Gary then said that he would have welcomed a handshake from Phil, although he wouldn’t have been the one to offer. “I was already there, you could have come down the side and sort of tapped me on the shoulder, and gone like that. “I wouldn’t have ignored your hand if you put it to me, but I would never have instigated it.” Phil then added: “I think people around us expected something, and we just didn’t play to the camera.”