Neville thought he was "going to die" after being hospitalised as drink spiked
Gary Neville admits he "thought he was going to die" after believing he had his drink spiked one Christmas.
The Manchester United stalwart was in his teens then and had been on a customary festive night out with his team-mates. David Beckham stuck him in a taxi to send him home, only for Neville to redirect the driver to the hospital, where he fell asleep.
A doctor eventually attended to him and asked if he'd had too much to drink. Neville originally thought that was the case before clocking that he could've in fact been spiked, later leaving the hospital in a wheelchair.
He told the Stick to Football podcast : “I ended up in hospital one Christmas, I thought I was going to die. Someone spiked my drink; I don’t know what with, but it was bad. I was with David Beckham and Ben Thornley put me in a taxi and he sent me home, but I said to the taxi driver to take me to the hospital.
"I got to the hospital, and it was quite busy, and I ended up falling asleep on the deck, and I remember one of the nurses coming over to me asking if it was just drunk, which I said it was, and only then I realised that I could have been spiked.
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“I ended up sleeping at the hospital, waking up about two hours later and you didn’t have mobile phones back then and I was 18, so I ended up using the hospital phone to ring up my girlfriend to come and pick me up. I remember she picked up and I was sat in a wheelchair at the front of the hospital, and she came to me pick me up and take me home.”
Gary Neville claims his drink was spiked on a night out during his playing days (Alex Livesey - Danehouse/Getty Images)Neville is by no means known for his drinking and was part of the Class of 92 that came into the United squad when a new age of professionalism was beginning. His former captain Roy Keane meanwhile was part of a different generation which did like a drink after a game.
The Irishman concedes he once missed out on a United Christmas party after rubbing Sir Alex Ferguson up the wrong way. “I got banned from the Manchester United Christmas party one year," he said. "I must’ve been injured, and the reserve team were having a night out and I went out with them and I think there was a bit of bother in Manchester.
“The first team lads were going out a couple days later and Sir Alex Ferguson came in, in front of everyone, and said that if anyone was seen drinking with me that day, they would get fined."
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