Phil Neville’s tenure as coach of the England national women’s soccer team could not have started any worse.
Just one day after England’s Football Association announced his hiring in January 2018, a number of remarkably sexist old tweets about women from Neville surfaced.
“Relax I’m back chilled — just battered the wife!!! Feel better now!” read one from 2011.
In another tweet from 2012, the former Manchester United and Everton standout said women “always wanted equality until it comes to paying the bills,” attaching a “#hypocrites” hashtag onto the message.
Neville deleted his Twitter account, which had 1.