Derby matches are often either amazing or terrible - and Saturday’s Manchester derby between City and United was most definitely the former.

In what will be remembered as one of the standout matches of the 2017-18 campaign, United came from 2-0 down to win 3-2 and prevented their local rivals from wrapping up the league title in the process.

City will still finish the season as league champions - barring an unprecedented capitulation - but Jose Mourinho and his players will be thoroughly delighted that they managed to postpone the celebrations.

A brace from Paul Pogba and another goal from Chris Smalling earned United all three points at the Etihad.

Nobody saw it coming at half-time. City were virtually over the finish line after that opening 45 minutes.

Well, we say nobody saw it coming. That’s not quite true.

Step forward, Mr. Gary Neville.

What Neville told his mates at half-time

The former Manchester United captain was on co-commentary duty doing the Manchester derby for Sky Sports and later revealed on his podcast what he’d messaged his friends on WhatsApp at half-time.

Tyler asked Neville: “During the half-time break we were speaking, what made you say to me United were going to get a couple of goals in the second half. What was it that you’d seen? What was that sixth sense that you felt?”

And the Sky Sports pundit replied: “Actually Martin, I went a step further.

"I said, this is a WhatsApp message: ‘United score, they will win, useless first half’ - this was to a group of friends! I just thought that [City] had got away with it.”

Neville was the only one who saw it coming

Yet more proof that Neville is football’s best pundit. That man certainly knows his stuff, especially when it comes to United.

“I thought if Jose Mourinho gets them in and they score, there will be an anxiety spread and there will be a momentum change,” he added. “I felt they would score.

“[United] were useless [in the first half], they didn’t have a chance in the first half, but there was just something that made me feel that if they got a goal this ground would feel uncomfortable, that Manchester United would start to gain some momentum - and it just happened.”

Neville somehow saw the future when the rest of us thought United were dead and buried.

That’s why Sky pay him the big bucks.