Gary Neville has issued an apology after revealing he will be banned from driving.
The ex-Manchester United defender took to Twitter this afternoon to claim he will soon be banned from the roads after being caught speeding recently. He made the admission in response to a tweet by Paul Waugh, a journalist at The i newspaper, regarding the Partygate fines.
Amid reports that Boris Johnson could receive three more fines over the scandal, Mr Waugh quoted an ally of the Prime Minister who is reported to have said: “If you’re caught speeding at 35mph four times, that doesn’t mean that you were speeding at 140mph. It doesn’t mean that you really endangered life because the cumulative effect of all your speeding in 30mph zones amounts to 140pmh, does it?”
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In response, Gary Neville tweeted: "I can relate to this. Was recently caught speeding, around 35-40. For first time in 30 years i’m now over 12 points. So I am banned. Because that is the law.
"And when you break the law it means no excuses, no gaslighting, no lies! Speed kills and I’m so sorry!"
When asked if he was really banned, he responded: "I will be, yes. Coming days/weeks."
In 2017, the Sky Sports pundit was slammed by road safety campaigners for ‘putting lives at risk’ by holding a mobile phone at the wheel. He was pictured with the phone in his hand on the M60 in Salford just days after the number of points and fine for calling or texting while driving doubled.
Just months earlier, the former England international was pictured holding his phone at the wheel of his BMW in Manchester.
