Danny Mills celebrated Gary Neville injury that ruled him out of the World Cup

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Manchester United legend Gary Neville would be ruled out of the 2002 World Cup through injury.The former Leeds United defender was a surprise inclusion in Sven Goran Eriksson’s first World Cup squad as England manager.

At the time, Mills was more of an outsider for the right back position, due to Neville’s regular brilliance under Sir Alex Ferguson.However, the now Sky Sports pundit was forced to sit out of the tournament in Asia after breaking his foot after a hard challenge on Bayer Leverkusen star Ze Roberto in the 2002 Champions League semi-final.

While this would have been devastating for Neville, Mills admitted the news greeted him in a jovial mood.Read More: Seven biggest ever football transfer U-turns after Liz Truss ditches 45p tax cut“At that point, I had no real thought, in the beginning of May, that I was going to get anywhere near the England squad,” Mills said on the Under the Cosh podcast in March 2021. “I’d made my debut, and played in a few games, but I’d only come off the bench.“So I thought ‘I have no chance of making the squad - my discipline had been horrendous.

I was in a bar and then all of a sudden, Sky was on [the TV] and ‘Gary Neville’s broken his foot’.”Mills added, “I was like ‘what?’ [and the news was] ‘Gary Neville is going to be out for a certain amount of time, broken metatarsal” before recreating his celebration at the time.What do you think of Danny Mills' reaction to Gary Neville's injury?