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Gary Neville has revealed he never had any plans to go into coaching with England

Image: Gary Neville: Never had plans to coach so soon

Gary Neville has revealed he never had any plans to go into coaching with England so soon after retiring from playing.

Neville, though, is taking nothing for granted with England and qualifying for next year's World Cup finals in Brazil, due to two upcoming tricky World Cup qualifiers in San Marino and Montenegro. He added: "I was part of a team that didn't qualify for Euro 2008, the last time we didn't qualify, and that was painful, really painful. England believes and should believe that it will always be at tournaments. "Qualification is in our hands but the idea that qualification for England is always simple is not true. In four tournaments that I got to it came down to the very last game or the play-offs. "People say, 'Oh qualification is going to be tough', but I've never known it not to be tough; there are many tournaments when it's gone down to that last group game and this time is no different. It's going to be tough."

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