Gary Neville reckons he wastes 98 minutes a week with mundane texting habit leaving Roy Keane totally bemused

GARY NEVILLE baffled Roy Keane as he estimated he wastes "98 minutes a week" on a mundane texting habit.

The confession came on the former Manchester United right-back's "Stick to Football" podcast - which Neville hosts alongside Roy Keane, Ian Wright, Jill Scott and Jamie Carragher.

The rant came after Wright quizzed him about a video Neville had posted on LinkedIn where he said he was frustrated by the phrase "I hope you're well".

Arsenal legend Wrighty asked "Gary, what was this I saw about you and 'hope you're well' in a video? Because I always do 'hope you're well', what's wrong with that?"

Speaking on the podcast, Neville replied: "So I basically send around 20 texts a day as an example, and I always write 'Hi so-and-so, hope you're well.'

"But when did that start? Because that wasn't always a thing?"

A confused Wright replied to say "It's just a feeling bro... Isn't it just a manly thing to be like 'Hi mate, hope you're well?'"

Carragher asked Neville to estimate how long typing the nicety costs him in minutes a day.

And Neville said: "I predicted 14. But if you times that by seven that's 98 minutes a week! Times that by a month and a year, you're spending a couple of days a year saying 'Hope you're well.'"

Neville went to renowned grouch Keane looking for some validation, asked him if he wrote "Hope you're well" too.

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But his quick-witted former United team-mate immediately shot him down by saying: "Yeah I think so. I do... but not to you."

Wright continued to be confused by Neville's rant and said: "I do 'hope you're well' all the time.

"For you to sit down and do a video talking about it I thought 'Is he well?'" Which drew laughter from the rest of the podcast.

Neville insisted that the nicety is a recent phenomenon that has only been around for the past "5-7 years".

Carragher went on to reveal that he lets people know he is done with a conversation by dropping a thumbs up emoji.

He also said he was thrilled with the WhatsApp innovation that allows users to react to messages with a thumbs up emoji, as he believes that indicates a conversation is truly over.

Keane surprisingly revealed he ends conversations with a selfie, to which Wright said "Yeah he loves sending a strange face."

Keane defended his unconventional conversation-ender by saying: "I send it to people I know, it just provides that closure."

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