NEV’S TREBLE PLEA TO SILENCE THE KOP

GARY NEVILLE is desperate for Manchester United to win three more Champions League crowns – and put arch-rivals Liverpool in the shade.

Former United skipper Neville (left) wants United to be able to call themselves the most successful club in British football history – which means lifting another three European Cups to inherit the bragging rights and overtake Liverpool, who are currently on five.

Neville, now a pundit for Sky Sports and a co-owner of National League North Salford City with former United team-mates Paul Scholes (right), Ryan Giggs and his brother Phil, opened up in a wideranging interview with United We Stand fanzine.

Asked if he would rather United won the Champions League or Salford gain promotion to the Football League, Neville said: “That’s a tough one. I want both.

“We’ve spent four years owning a football club with the ambition to get it into the Football League.

“How can I say that I don’t want that to happen?

“Or say that I don’t want United to win the Champions League?

“I want United to be the most successful British club in history and, at the moment, they’re not.

“I want to reach those five European Cups and then get a sixth to remove all doubt.

“I want them to remove all argument for when I go to Liverpool and have that palm of a hand thrown in my face every time I’m there.” Neville also revealed the biggest ‘bottle job’ during his time at United. He said it was when Sir Alex Ferguson’s side lost 3-2 to Real Madrid at Old Trafford to bow out of the Champions League, having drawn 0-0 in the Bernabeu in the first leg. Neville said: “Real Madrid at home in 2000, I was going through a terrible period with confidence and felt like I didn’t want the ball. “I remember being on the pitch, thinking, ‘This is a low moment for me’. “I was 25 and had never felt like that before. “Leeds in the third round of the FA Cup in 2010 was a bottle job for the team, too. Terrible, terrible.”