Imagine sharing a room with David Beckham, which possibly would be a dream come true for fans of the football legend. However, Gary Neville is not exactly ecstatic that at one time, he roomed with his former Manchester United teammate. According to Neville, he hated the experience.
Neville and Beckham made the United first-team shortly after graduating from the club's academy. The went on playing together more than a decade, and for a short while, they shared a room when playing away matches.
That was the time when club policy mandated that two players shared a twin room. The scheme saw the two icons forced to live in a shared space, which for Neville turned out to be unpleasant, according to Mirror.
Not that Becks was hard to get along with. It was just that Neville found his teammate's room manners difficult to adjust with. To sum up the experience, Neville was the complete opposite of Beckham so rooming didn't work for them.
"I roomed with David Beckham for about six months and then the whole rooming with players completely stopped because everybody went into their own individual rooms," Neville was reported as saying.
As the same report noted, Beckham and Neville certainly clicked on the pitch as their collaboration powered the Red Devils to multiple title wins. The same chemistry, however, couldn't be summoned when it came to living in the same space.
For instance, Neville revealed that his sleeping habits differed with that of his friend, and he realized that in the short period of rooming with his former teammate, co-existing in a box will be next to impossible.
"I used to go to bed at 9 pm and wake up at 5 am, he would stay up until 11 pm and want to wake up at 8 am, so essentially he was keeping me up from 9 until 11 and then I was getting him up at 5 in the morning, so it just wasn't working at all," Metro reported the football coach as saying.
And the United legend admitted that Beckham was immaculate as opposed to his disorganized bedroom habits. Neville admitted: "I just throw everything everywhere."
In contrast, Beckham treated their shared room like a sanctuary. For him, everything had to be in order and all the time.
"He is the cleanest person. He gets into his room, he lights candles, he puts pictures up - everything has to be absolutely perfect, it's been the same since he was 18," Neville revealed.
In the end, Neville had accepted that Beckham was "just the complete opposite end of the spectrum of where I was at.
Fortunately for United, the secret rooming disagreements that occurred between Neville and Beckham did not spill over on the pitch. The two made the Red Devils proud for 11 years and were responsible for six Premier League honors for Old Trafford.
