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New England women's manager Phil Neville has deleted his Twitter profile amid a furore over something he wrote back in 2012.

Neville had only been in the job a matter of minutes when fans started to suggest that he might already be in for the chop.

And it was all down to tweet he wrote six years ago.

The former Manchester United and Everton utility man, 41, will take charge until the end of the 2021 UEFA Women’s Championship.

This evening, he said: "I am honoured to be given the chance to lead England."

However, some fans believe his reign could be short-lived. VERY short lived.

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It appears the man himself is concerned, too, as his Twitter profiled has been deleted.

On January 19, 2012, Neville followed up an earlier, pretty standard 'good morning' tweet with one which could certainly be construed as being sexist.

He wrote: "When I said morning men I thought the women would of [sic] been busy preparing breakfast/getting kids ready/making the beds-sorry morning women!"

Within seconds of his appointment as the women's team head coach being announced, people started retweeting his 2012 words.

Here's what they had to say...

Neville's appointment ends the search for a replacement for Mark Sampson, who left his £120,000-a-year role under a cloud last year.

It will be Neville's first crack at management having served as an assistant coach to David Moyes at Old Trafford in 2013 and his brother Gary at Valencia in 2016.

He is universally respected in the game and has forged a strong reputation as a pundit for BBC, Sky and foreign broadcast outlets. The FA are reportedly willing to allow him to continue working in the media if he does take charge.

Neville was approached by Moyes last November to join the backroom set-up at West Ham but declined the opportunity.