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Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville has refused to take back calling Chelsea \u2018billion-pound bottlejobs\u2019 during Sunday\u2019s Carabao Cup final defeat to Liverpool.<\/strong><\/p>\n
The Blues were beaten in extra-time at Wembley despite Jurgen Klopp having to field several teenage players and academy products with little first-team experience. Chelsea, who have spent over \u00a31bn on transfers since BlueCo took over in 2022, had dominated the second half of normal time before wilting in the added 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
On Sky Sports\u2019 broadcast of the game, Neville \u2013 who was joining Peter Drury and Jamie Carragher on commentary \u2013 labelled Chelsea \u2018billion-pound bottlejobs\u2019 and the statement went viral.<\/p>\n
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Neville appeared on Sky Sports\u2019 Monday Night Football a day after the final and was asked to clarify his comments. While he admitted he may have gone a little over the top, he did not take back his already iconic line or the sentiment behind it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel bad now!\u201d Neville began. \u201cNo, look, I\u2019m not going to sit here and say it was an instinctive commentary moment\u2026I mean, it was instinctive because I didn\u2019t know what was going to happen in extra-time.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Peter did about 35 seconds after the goal and Carra did about 25 seconds and I was getting angrier.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you hear my commentary during extra-time, I was getting angrier with\u00a0Chelsea\u00a0from the first minute of extra-time until two minutes to go because I could smell the fear in Chelsea from the very first minute of extra-time when I said: \u2018Why are they sitting off them? Why are they letting these young lads grow?\u2019, and then Jurgen Klopp started to grow.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you remember, there was a chorus, a song, that\u00a0Liverpool\u00a0fans were singing because they could smell the blood, they could smell the fear in those blue shirts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got to half-time of extra-time and I said: \u2018somehow, Mauricio Pochettino and all those players have got to work out that if they got into this position at the start of the season and told themselves they\u2019ve got 15 minutes against a Liverpool team that have only got two players that would make their starting XI normally, that they would snap their hand off!\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cGrab this opportunity, don\u2019t have regrets! Just from a playing point of view, the idea of a team not seizing the day, seizing the moment, grabbing the opportunity, all those things we say to each other in lives as young people, that we want a team to grab this moment. Chelsea shrunk.<\/p>\n
\u201cI used the word \u2018shrunk\u2019 and maybe \u2018bottle\u2019 is a very strong word, but playing with absolute fear, froze, whatever you want to call it, that\u2019s what we saw in extra-time.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately, I don\u2019t want that tag to stick with them because the reality is that there are a lot of talented young players there who may go on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville has refused to take back calling Chelsea \u2018billion-pound bottlejobs\u2019 during Sunday\u2019s Carabao Cup final defeat to Liverpool. The Blues were beaten in extra-time at Wembley despite Jurgen Klopp having to field several teenage players and academy products with little first-team experience. Chelsea, who have spent over \u00a31bn on transfers since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n
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