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David Moyes confers with assistant Phil Neville during the Champions League quarter-final in Munich. Photograph: Chris Brunskill/AMA/Matthew Ashton/Corbis
David Moyes confers with assistant Phil Neville during the Champions League quarter-final in Munich. Photograph: Chris Brunskill/AMA/Matthew Ashton/Corbis

Manchester United's Phil Neville: I can't look at Premier League table

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First-team coach admits Manchester United are 'hurting'
Neville cannot even bear to watch Match of the Day

Phil Neville admits Manchester United have been so bad this year that he is unable to bring himself to look at the Premier League table.

Neville won the title six times in 10 years at United but the former England defender has experienced nothing like that success since he returned to Old Trafford to become David Moyes' first-team coach last summer.

United are seventh in the table, some 20 points behind rivals Liverpool with five matches left. United are guaranteed to end the campaign with their worst points total in the Premier League era, and that does not sit right with their former left-back.

"It's been difficult watching other teams above us do well and to even look at a league table," the United coach told the BBC's Football Focus.

"I find it difficult to watch Match of the Day on Saturday night; I find it almost impossible because we've suffered this season."

Neville, who played under Moyes for eight years at Everton, insists everyone at the club is hurting because of their predicament. "We have failed on the pitch and that doesn't sit kindly with anyone," Neville said before United's trip to Everton on Sunday.

"We are not hiding away from the fact that we have underperformed. We have not fulfilled any levels of expectations this season."

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