FORMER Premier League star Gary Neville has expressed his admiration for what is happening at Wrexham AFC.

The 48-year-old spent his whole playing career at Manchester United and also earned 85 caps for England.

Nowadays, he's best known for teaming up alongside Liverpool FC legend Jamie Carragher as pundits on Sky Sports.

When speaking to The Guardian recently, Neville praised Wrexham for what they have achieved so far under the guidance of manager Phil Parkinson and co-chairmen Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds.

In the interview, Neville hailed the project as 'special', while comparing Wrexham to the likes of newly-promoted Premier League side Luton Town.

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Neville said: ""The dream of the pyramid in English football is that you can rise from the lower tiers and play in the Premier League. Once we lose that, we lose everything.

"What clubs like Luton, Wrexham and Stockport have done is what makes football special. We’re not franchise football.

"The Super League was an attack on those principles and it’ll never happen again."

Wrexham will play Salford City next season when they meet in League Two - another club who enjoyed similar success - and a club which Neville took over in 2014.

Members of the formidable 'Class of 92' United side, consisting of Neville, his brother Phil, Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes, purchased Salford along with businessman Peter Lim.

Within five years of that, the club was promoted to the English Football League for the first time.

Neville later stepped down from his role of CEO at the club.