Manchester United captain Gary Neville is mulling over the prospect of digging up his backyard pool after being the victim of a couple of Liverpool builders.

Liverpudlian brothers Brian and Gary Greer buried a Liverpool scarf and a copy of Kop, the club's fanzine, and a match programme, in a plastic tube when they worked on the England defender's pool.

"While we were there we created a Scouse time capsule under the pool and tiled over the top of it," Brian Greer told The Sun.

"When his house is dug up in the future, archaeologists will see what a passion he had for the Red men."