Gary Neville gives passionate rant on football ownership amid Derby County administration

22.01.2022 - 18:37 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Gary Neville gave a passionate rant on Friday Night Football on Sky Sports last night on the potential of Derby County being forced into liquidation.

The latest news coming out of Derby is that they may be days away from potential liquidation with administrators hoping to secure funding to keep the club operational while they continue their efforts to secure a takeover at Pride Park.

The Championship club have been in administration since the beginning of the season, when owner Mel Morris calling in business advisory firm Quantuma to oversee the club's affairs after failing to transfer ownership of the Rams to a new custodian.

Neville had promised to touch on the Derby situation earlier in the week, and backed it up on Friday night, admitting his seething frustration that Derby fans were at the stage of pleading for their club's future on social media.

Neville's mother was company secretary at Bury for over 20 years and he began his rant by reflecting on them going bust earlier this decade.

The former Manchester United defender said: "It feels like history is repeating itself from a few years ago.

"My Mum took the call on a sorry Tuesday night from the EFL to tell her that Bury had gone bust a few years ago and that was it, they were done.

"Someone at Derby will take that call in a few weeks' time unless something big doesn't happen.

"If Woolworths goes into administration nobody wants to buy it, it goes bust.

"If nobody wants to buy Derby in the next couple of weeks or months, however long that moment is... they will go bust. It is inconceivable that this can continue.

"No one can save Derby at this moment of time other than a buyer coming in. And that's going to be damned hard work.

"There isn't the regulation for