In 1967, Neal initiated York's now internationally respected graduate programme in social and political thought.
A high court judge heard today that Radio 4's highly respected Today programme and the World Service both ran stories in July alleging Lester Bird took more than $200m of public money and spent it on parties, presents, foreign trips and cosmetic surgery for friends and colleagues.
Police can only record what they know about, so to truly understand hate crime you have to also look at the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) - the internationally respected rolling programme of interviews with ordinary people.
Community members thus respected the programme.
This may be partly down to the Respect programme.
In 2008 it launched the Respect programme, aimed at creating a less hostile, more sporting environment.
"I think that the Respect programme was fully justified and brought in at the right time," he said.
"If I have a genuine legacy - and we were sitting in a big stadium last night - the Respect programme is very special to me.
The much-criticised Respect programme has also improved behaviour on the touchlines: the FA's most recent survey of grassroots participants showed 70% of respondents saying they believed the FA to be successfully developing football at their level.
