Punditry reaping the benefits as Red Nev takes his love of an argument from page to screen
Sports books for Christmas Gary Neville’s studio manner might need polishing but the former Manchester United captain and England defender winning over the sceptics as a media commentator for his willingness to engage in meaningful debate. It struck a positive note, certainly, with the Independent’s venerable columnist James Lawton, who described Neville’s verbal jousting with the wise but prickly Graeme Souness during the Sky Sports coverage of Liverpool’s match against Manchester City on Sunday as something that “should be weighed in gold” by their bosses “blowing away the studio double-talk that has tumbled so relentlessly down the years.” In Neville’s case, he has picked up where he left off, to an extent, in his autobiography Red , which has been one of the top sellers in sports books during 2011. ** Sports Book Deals in Amazon's 12 days of Christmas promotion ** Red was notable for the way in which Neville -- England's shop steward during the Rio Ferdinan