Gary Neville makes major announcement as Sky Sports pundit secures four new deals

Former Manchester United captain and current Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville has confirmed that his popular podcast will be continuing for at least another couple of years.

In September 2023, Nevillealong with his fellow ex-professionals Jamie Carragher, Roy Keane, Ian Wright and Jill Scott launched the Stick to Football podcast. The name derived after then prime minister Rishi Sunak suggested that Neville 'stick to football' after the ex-defender criticised the Conservative government.

Since then, the podcast has moved from strength-to-strength with the first episode amassing a whopping 2.2m views on YouTube. At the time of writing, Stick to Football has managed to accumulate 1.47m subscribers on YouTube and has proven to be a great success.

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Last week, Stick to Football released a special behind the scenes episode as they prepare for the new season which kicks off in August. During that episode, Neville confirmed that all of the original members of the podcast had agreed two-year extensions to remain on Stick to Football.

During that announcement, the former defender added that he already knew when the podcast would end for good. "The exciting thing about today is we've just, in the last week, agreed with Roy, Jill, Carra and Wrighty for another two years," he explained on the .

"Whether you like it or not, you're going to get another two years of Stick to Football. I think if one of them left, I think I'd close it like you know.

"Obviously sometimes, you know, Carra's not there because of the Champions League, but I do feel like, you know, you lose something when one of the group isn't there." Neville would go on to explain the origins of the podcast and why he decided to launch it.

"I set off on The Overlap on my own, just doing the individual interviews, but I always thought about live events and live shows. So, if you remember, we did The Overlap on tour, and I didn't like it," Neville added.

"It's a good reason to start Stick to Football, isn't it [laughs], but I didn't like it. I didn't like the live events.

"I felt like I was under pressure, we were under pressure, you know. People were paying like 40, 50 quid for a ticket, and then this idea that they're going to come and watch us talk about football.

"But you feel like you've got to put on a show for them, and you feel like you've got to basically sort of like deliver because they paid a lot of money. I didn't like the idea of it at all, but what I did like was the dynamic of the people who were on the stage.

"So, I then thought to myself, I think this would be very different if we could get four or five people together on a regular basis around a bar. We started with the idea of obviously Roy and Carra.

"Roy had been doing some stuff with Wrighty on ITV, and I thought it was a really strong dynamic there of them two. I'd done something with Jill, and, I can't remember what it was now, I thought, Jill's a good person first and foremost.

"She's obviously had an incredible football career, but I felt like she could live in the environment, quite a demanding environment you know being in with us. You think about Carra, the intensity of Carra obviously at times.

"Roy has an intensity to him. I do at times, and you need to be a certain type of character and personality to be able to live in that environment.

"Very early on I think I thought: 'Yeah, I feel like it feels like home actually'."