Greg and football star Gary Neville have a lot in common

15 February 2012

Greg met football star (and David Beckham’s best man!) Gary Neville this week after the Manchester United sporting hero initially “Tweeted” the Town MP in response to Greg’s Twitter post about joining The Bexhill Health Walkers along Seafront.

Speaking after Gary Neville, (who himself now has over a quarter of a million followers on Twitter) visited Greg at his ministerial office in the Department for Energy and Climate Change, Greg said,

“I was delighted to meet Gary. Although he has now hung up his professional football boots he is now a real champion for sustainability and green issues, especially in sport and is building his own, sustainable home.

We had a really useful and positive discussion about the power of sport to engage young people in a whole range of important issues and how we hope a more positive message around green issues could help us re engage the public on the important climate change and green challenges of our time.”

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