When seeing is disbelieving

Let’s say Swiss television ran a version of ‘The Voice’ and decided to call it ‘The Yodel’, then rest assured, Gary Neville would be one of those poor divils who only features in the end of season compilation of embarrassing audition outtakes, included just to give everybody a cheap laugh.

If you haven’t already heard his reaction to the Fernando Torres goal against Barcelona, then do yourself a favour and check it out online. While Sky’s match commentator was doing his best to keep it strictly professional as the much derided striker rounded Victor Valdes to put Chelsea through to the final of the Champions League, the mic was picking up the most extraordinary sound emanating from his co-commentator’s mouth.

Somewhere between an adolescent boy’s voice breaking and a hyena which has just been told a truly terrible joke, it was a weird undulating yodel, half animal, half human, which will take Neville some time to explain and even longer to live down.