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Martin Keown suggests Gary Neville lacked class with reaction to Liverpool defeat

Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown says he'd "try to show a little bit more class" than Gary Neville did in the aftermath of Liverpool's first Premier League defeat of the season last weekend.

Former Manchester United favourite Neville posted a video of himself on Twitter opening a bottle of champagne after Liverpool's 3-0 loss at Watford which ended their 44-match unbeaten run.

The defeat also meant that Liverpool - who are 22 points clear at the top of the Premier League - cannot emulate the feat achieved by Arsenal in the 2003/04 season, when they went the entire league campaign unbeaten.

Keown was in that side, but says he wasn't tempted to follow Neville in glorying in Liverpool's loss.

Liverpool went down 3-0 to Watford at Vicarage Road last Saturday (ANDY RAIN/EPA-EFE/REX)

"I’d try to show a little bit more class than that," Keown told talkSPORT .

"I don’t profit from someone else failing. We won it when we won it and nobody can take that away.

"Look, it’s all in jest, he’s probably having a bit of a laugh but at the end of the day I don’t know why we are celebrating someone else’s demise.

Neville enjoyed himself on Twitter after Liverpool's loss (GNev2/Twitter)

"I’d only celebrate when we won. I won for us. I don’t win to stop someone else from winning."

Keown also suggested that Liverpool might end up going unbeaten next season.

"What is does do is underline what an achievement it was because it really was quite phenomenal where you have to be driven every day of the week for months on end," he continued.

Keown was in the Arsenal side that went unbeaten in the Premier League in 2003/04 (Getty Images)

"A special group of players I was very fortunate to be with. I’d seen them mature into winning machines.

" Liverpool will get that back and I do feel next season could be the year they go unbeaten, because Jurgen Klopp at the head of that team has been quite magnificent.

"We have some amazing managers in the Premier League and we are blessed to have them on these shores."

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