Gary Neville Reveals the Surprising Reason Behind Launching The Overlap Five Years Ago
This saw Neville shift his focus to in-depth conversations with some of the biggest names in sport, from Harry Kane and Anthony Joshua to Dina Asher-Smith. Over the past five years, the channel has become a huge success, with Neville admitting that its origins were more personal than commercial.
Neville on what influenced him to start The Overlap
Neville insists that rather than spotting a gap in the market, it was his own desire to improve his own interviewing skills and move away from short-form, bite-sized social media content to something more meaningful that was his initial motivation.
“There was no gap in the market,” Neville tells FourFourTwo. “There was just a gap in my head of something that I was missing. It’s a bit embarrassing to admit, but there’d be times at Sky when managers would come into the studio, there’d be Dave or Kelly, Carra and me, we’d ask them questions and I thought ‘I’m really bad at this’.
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