Gary Neville has predicted that Manchester City will not run away with the Premier League this season.

The Blues clinched their first title in 44 years with a dramatic final-day triumph in the last campaign, beating local rivals Manchester United to the crown.

Neville now believes that it will be another close campaign in England's top flight.

"Very rarely does a team run away with it," former United captain Neville told BBC Sport. "It's a tough league to win and the idea that a team will go and dominate, it's too early to start speculating about that.

"The easiest thing to say, and I've heard it a lot of times before, is that City will dominate," said Neville. "If City had lost the league on the last day people would have been saying United will dominate.

"It happens every year, the sort of up and down reaction that we get. The reality is that there will always be a challenge to whoever will be champions."

Neville was appointed as coach for the England national team by manager Roy Hodgson in May.