Edited sentence: Gary has a long standing relationship with the Mediterranean island of Malta, he has been an official tourism ambassador since 2001 and works with Air Malta to promote the country which he has regularly visited since childhood.Gary has a reputation as a "union" figure within the England camp — he was allegedly the ringleader of an idea to boycott an important Euro 2004 qualifier away to Turkey in support of teammate Rio Ferdinand who had been issued with a ban for missing a drug test.Gary questioned whether certain corporate sponsors involved in the match believed in the cause enough to justify the publicity they received.Gary was also thought to be the chief instigator of the England players' snub of the British press and media after a match.He is currently on the Management Committee of the Professional Footballers' Association.He was believed to be behind a similar player protest in support of Alan Smith after the striker was dropped from the England squad because of his arrest related to an alleged off-the-field indiscretion, later proven to be untrue.In 2005, Gary prompted another debate in the aftermath of an England game against the Netherlands, which had been used to promote the "Let's kick racism out of football" campaign.In return, the Malta Tourism Authority and Air Malta sponsor the Gary Neville Soccer School on the island, which Gary tutors at every summer.Neville's face has since frequently been superimposed onto the iconic image of Che Guevara in a range of contexts, including a humorous t-shirt.The public perception of these incidents has led to Gary being lampooned in the media, for example his dubbing by the often-irreverent website Football365, as "Citizen Neville" (after Citizen Smith), while another cited nickname is "Red Nev".The strike never occurred and the match went ahead.While reviled by many England national team supporters, Neville is a popular figure among the Manchester United support, who see Neville (a life long United fan) as one of their own