Phil Neville<\/a> feels he can keep playing for two seasons, if not more, despite having questioned his professional future last autumn due to injury.<\/p>\nThe versatile defender, whose brother Gary bowed out from service at Manchester United in January, was worried when a foot injury kept him out of the first few games of the 2010-11 campaign.<\/p>\n
Neville told the club\u2019s official website that he was glad that his manager David Moyes had persuaded him to nip thoughts of retirement in the bud.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was questioning myself whether I was good enough to be a footballer again, I was contemplating retirement at the time but the manager told me to snap out of it and so did my family and I\u2019ve had a great season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Now 34, Neville feels he has fully recovered and has rediscovered his drive to play on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve personally enjoyed it this season more than any other one, I feel as fit as I ever have and from the start of the season where I thought it might be my last I\u2019m now thinking I want to continue for as long as possible and at least the next two seasons – hopefully at Everton.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, the former Manchester United man admitted that there had been tough times as well as high points in the Toffees\u2019 season, pointing to the side\u2019s cup defeats to Football League opposition among others.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe three games against Reading, Brentford and Bolton were probably real low points,\u201d he conceded.<\/p>\n
\u201cReading in the FA Cup was absolutely catastrophic – you can\u2019t say anything more than that, we\u2019d just beaten Chelsea and we thought it was going to be our year again \u2013 we\u2019re going to turn it around and get to Wembley and then we get beat by Reading.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neville went on to praise the team spirit shown by his side to pick themselves up after those setbacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all just seem to pull together, that\u2019s the pleasing thing about being captain of this group of players, that when we lose at Bolton or against Brentford or Reading it\u2019s not just one or two that have to raise the spirits, the whole team pull together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since joining Everton in 2005, Neville\u2019s influence and ability to play in central midfield as well as across the defence has seen him become a key figure in Moyes\u2019 team.<\/p>\n
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