Replying to yet more moaning from Arsenal their game with Everton (from The Guardian):
"Those comments didn't surprise me one little bit - some clubs have different agendas.
"I make a tackle, win the ball, the referee doesn't give a foul, I don't get booked and all of a sudden I'm a thug. Days before, one of their players nearly takes someone's head off (Van Persie) and they are pleading innocence. How many times over the years have we seen that from Arsène Wenger and Arsenal?
"When you play Arsenal, you know you are playing a great team with great players. Robert Pires is an absolutely fantastic player who has put in some unbelievable performances since he has come to this country. But in English football, you have got to tackle. Sometimes when you play against these type of players, it's as if they have it in their contracts that you are not allowed to tackle them. Well, Everton's strength and my strength is tackling and it may be a more British type of game.
"You can't sit off against Arsenal and let them play because they'll kill you. My job is to tackle and over the years - apart from against Fulham this season - I've never been sent off. That suggests I'm not a dirty player so for him to say that I deliberately went out to 'do him' was, to be honest, insulting."
The Spaniard left the pitch after 70 minutes, just before United scored the first of their two goals, and later said: "In all my sporting life I have never received so many kicks as in Manchester. The referee [Mike Riley] should have stopped the violence of the Manchester United players." His testimony was a little lost in the furore over a food fight erupting in the tunnel later.
Neville denied any wrongdoing that day and received his manager David Moyes' backing after Arsenal's criticisms last week. "They were saying we deliberately went out to target Reyes in that game last season," added the £3.5m signing. "I have seen the video and I made two tackles on Reyes that day, one of which was a foul. That doesn't suggest you've gone out to deliberately target someone to me. As I say, you are not allowed to tackle, you are not allowed to touch.
"You only have to look at Arsenal's disciplinary record, which suggests that the problem lies within rather than outside the club. We have seen it over 10 years and it is not going to change now. Wenger will defend his players like David Moyes defended me. You defend your own, but sometimes it has to have a bit of realism and honesty about it."