A BOXING trainer who filmed with football stars Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville is an £18million drugs kingpin.
Michael McNally, 42, threw punches at Neville in a gym session as Carragher cheered.
But we can reveal he was jailed for 17 years this month after peddling 50kg of heroin and 200kg of cocaine, worth £18.5million.
He supplied the drugs in 2020 — then was filmed with the former footballers at Liverpool’s Rotunda ABC the following year.
In an episode of The Overlap viewed 3.6million times on YouTube, Carragher gives fellow Sky TV pundit Neville a tour of the Bootle area of Merseyside where he grew up.
They start at the gym which ex-Liverpool star Carragher said he visits daily.
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McNally, who trained world champ Tony Bellew as an amateur, then gives ex-Man United defender Neville a going-over.
A source told The Sun: “Carragher has been training there for a long time.
“It’s embarrassing for Neville and Carragher to have him in their programme.”
McNally believed his use of the encrypted EncroChat mobile phone network, favoured by criminals, made him untouchable.
But it was infiltrated by international law enforcement in 2020, with millions of messages passed to UK police, including some from “LankyPanda”.
These were traced to McNally when he shared photos of police responding to a car crash outside his house in Bootle.
He also revealed that he was delivering drugs using a “white Kangoo van” that was “on a 66 plate”.
It was later seen in his garden.
When cops swooped in May, they found a semi-automatic pistol in the loft with ammo, plus £23,000.
McNally pleaded guilty in June to charges including conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, conspiracy to transfer criminal property and possession of a prohibited firearm.
He was jailed at Liverpool crown court on November 7.
Jon Hughes, of the National Crime Agency, said: “This operation has successfully taken a drug supplier out of the community, a dangerous weapon off the streets and cash out of the hands of criminals.”
Neville and Carragher were asked for comment.
