Gary Neville is not happy with Luka Modric's comments following Croatia's win over England (Image: GETTY/ITV)
I think he’s come out after the game having won and thought ‘I’m going to have a dig’
Gary Neville on Croatia star Luka Modric
“I don’t believe it for one second,” Gary Neville said on ITV ahead of England's third-place play-off against Belgium.
“I think he’s come out after the game having won and thought ‘I’m going to have a dig’ and obviously he was in a position to do that.
“He’s a great player but I don’t believe for any minute of that game he was ever thinking about the English media, what the English media had said, what any pundit had said.
“Why would you? No player ever thinks like that during a match.
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Gary Neville says Luka Modric was wrong to criticise the English media (Image: ITV)
“The fact that we made a mistake for the second goal, or that (Mario) Mandzukic was alive and John Stones wasn’t is nothing to do with the English media. They’re just moments in football matches that happen.
“He’s played for Real Madrid for the last seven or eight years, imagine the amount of media articles and critical things that would have been said about Real Madrid on a daily basis.
“Why would you even think that would be taken into a football match?”