Gary Neville has identified two occasions when he thought the media overstepped the boundary during his four years as a coach with England.
The Sky Sports pundit appeared on Sunday Supplement alongside the show's presenter Neil Ashton, The Times' Henry Winter, The Mail on Sunday's Oliver Holt and the Daily Mail's Martin Samuel to debate the state of football journalism.
The discussion got onto the media's involvement with the England team and while Neville, who served as an assistant manager to Roy Hodgson for four years, did pick out two incidents that he thought were wrong, he did think the media had treated England fairly during his time on the coaching staff.
"The only two occasions I had an issue with was the 'Moldova leg over' incident, which was a wonderful headline," Neville said.
"The journalists were invited into the team hotel, there is an element of privilege there as well as privacy.
"One of the players had a female representative of his agency in the hotel and yet that was interpreted that the players were having women into the hotel.
"That was a real issue of principle," he added. "When you're invited into the team hotel you should not do that. One, check your story, and two, it was out of order. We went and got the video tapes and actually proved it was a female representative of his agency that went and met a player in the public lounge of the hotel.
"The second occasion which I had more of a problem with was the idea that in the 2014 World Cup the press were taking it in turns to spy on the England training camp before releasing our tactics in the following day's newspaper.
"We actually caught the journalists doing it, we banned them for two days, and then everyone defended them stoically.
"How can you as journalists think it is right on private training sessions to actually snoop, watch and then reveal tactics and team selections to the whole world?
"That was wrong, fundamentally wrong. It's a betrayal."
In an exclusive interview with Sky Sports News HQ last week, former England manager Hodgson stressed his concern at being misinterpreted by the written media.
Asked whether he echoed his former boss' thoughts, Neville said: "You can lose badly if you don't handle a press conference well.
"In terms of the four years with England, other than two instances, that have nothing to do with opinion, we were treated fairly. That is an absolute fact.
"It was a period of calm in terms of headlines for England. If you think about what's happened since; players in nightclubs, weddings and strip clubs to managers being sacked for being stitched up - that's what I knew for 20 years with England.
"I'm used to the old England so for four years we had a very passive time."