CALL THEM THE CLASSLESS OF ‘92

months in charge because their promotion push has stalled.

Carragher ridiculed Neville’s decision, tweeting a string of laughing emojis beside Neville’s comments after David Moyes (left) was sacked by United in 2014 – he urged a rule change to stop managers being axed mid-season in their first year.

Neville had claimed Wellens

“fits the profile we are looking for” when he lured him from Swindon, where he had won the League Two title in 2020, because he was a former player and ex-united trainee.

Carragher and Neville frequently clash on Sky’s Monday Night Football show. Fierce rivals during their playing days with Liverpool and United respectively, they have carried that edge into broadcasting. In their early days on screen together Carragher famously said: “No young player wants to grow up to be a Gary Neville,” and barbs between the two have landed regularly since.

Wellens, 40, has paid the price for a run of just one win from Salford’s last eight league games. Saturday’s 2-0 loss to leaders Cheltenham, which left

Salford in ninth, eight points outside the play-offs, was the final straw for Neville and Co.

The Ammies, who sacked Graham Alexander in October despite being unbeaten in his first five games, have one of the biggest budgets in League Two and want promotion this season.

A club statement read: “We would like to thank Richie and wish him well for the future.”

PLAYING out from the back, the bane of my football-watching life. Every team in the country now has to prove they can do what Pep does, but instead of doing it with Ferrari quality players that are at Pep’s disposal, teams are doing it with Morris Minors instead.

It leaves me looking through my fingers every time an average defender or midfielder tries to play Tiki-taka in their own box. This week’s culprit? Fred at Manchester United. Facing his own

goal, running straight at the ball from Henderson, his touch has to be spot on, but his back pass produced a Leicester goal at a key moment of the game, and undoubtedly helped the Foxes into the FA Cup semi-finals.

It’s a tale of style over substance, fashion over common sense, a tale of “playing the right way” meaning more than Row Z and winning a match.

Embarrassing, and coming to a club near you. They are all at it! Pound-shop Pep’s trying to turn water into wine.