Stephen Carr

[Main Street]

It's amazing the amount of Irish people who take some tv association with an English club to such a level that they take a dislike to Irish players at other clubs.
What happens next at our next home International,  Irish Liverpool followers boo John O'Shea?

[full back]

It's amazing the amount of Irish people who take some tv association with an English club to such a level that they take a dislike to Irish players at other clubs.

Who said they dislike him?
Some have said they dont rate him...

[Denn Forever]

Good footballer but I always thought he was going to make a mistake that he might then recover it and everyone would say he was a great footballer. 

Other footballers whose would share this trait would be Sol Campbell, Ledley King.  All Tottenham players.  Maybe there is something in the water?

For Ireland, he was never lucky and Napoleon said, give me a lucky general over a great general.

[Evil Genius]

Well obviously Carr was seriously injured in 2001/2002, did he play any club games at all?

Quite correct, MS, he didn't:
"However, in the summer of 2001, he began to have problems with his knee and required an operation which he underwent in September of that year. He did not make any appearances in the 2001-02 Premier League season and would also miss the World Cup 2002 finals. It wasn't until October 2002 that Carr was back in training and fully fit"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Carr

He played just a few for Ireland then but was still injured, never really recovered, never made the WC squad because of that and was never the same player since.

Correct again. However, my recall is that his decline was not just physical, talk of the move to MU etc clearly went to his head and he went from hero to villain in the eyes of Spurs fans, who might otherwise have been sympathetic.
I still think, mind, that for a period of three seasons, he was the best young right back in the Prem, and one of the top three of any age.

[nifan]

The premiership wasnt blessed with many really good fullbacks in that period in general.

[Main Street]

It's amazing the amount of Irish people who take some tv association with an English club to such a level that they take a dislike to Irish players at other clubs.

Who said they dislike him?
Some have said they dont rate him...

I was more or less replying to yogi bear.

Personally I believe those who don't rate him before he became a chronically injured in 2001, never saw him in action for Ireland in the 3 games of the WCQ 2002 campaign. If they did see those games, then they have a memory blank out of 2 excellent away performances by Carr against Holland and Portugal.

[Rav67]

He was a top player for a period but didn't do it for long enough to be considered a "legend."  Gary Kelly and Ian Harte were also brilliant full-backs at the start of their EPL careers but then nosedived (Harte spectacularly) when you would have expected they would be coming into their peak.