Neville put Elland Road up there with Ibrox and Celtic Park after seeing Daniel Farke's side beat Everton in Premier League opener
22:20, 18 Aug 2025Updated 22:25, 18 Aug 2025
Gary Neville
The 49ers Enterprises takeover of Rangers this summer forged links between the Ibrox and Elland Road boardrooms.
But Gary Neville finds both stadiums FEROCIOUS to play at as he compared both grounds after watching Leeds win on their return to the English Premier League.
After Leeds chairman and Gers vice chairman Paraag Marathe hinted pre-match at when Light Blues were likely to see more new faces, Daniel Farke's men made a winning start to the 2025/26 campaign with a 1-0 win over Everton.
Lukas Nmecha's late penalty was enough to condemn David Moyes' men to defeat in Yorkshire.
Neville, who had been caught at half-time saying he would go "nowhere near" a group of Leeds fans shown on camera when he thought he was off air, talked up the atmosphere of the famous old ground.
And he grouped it with Anfield and Celtic Park as the grounds that were most hostile and difficult to get results at.
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Neville played at Parkhead and in Govan in the Champions League with Man Utd, beating Rangers 1-0 in 2003 before losing 1-0 to Celtic three years later.
Speaking on Sky Sports, he said: I'd put Elland Road on definitely alongside Anfield, Ibrox and Celtic Park, some of the great hostile grounds that were just ferocious when you went there.
"You knew you had to work really hard to win."
Fellow pundit Jamie Carragher then quipped: "Do you know like going to them ones either?"
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