The OFFICIAL Liverpool Supporters thread

[Minder]

I am reading Ian Rush's autobiography at the minute, well worth a look & what a player. The thing about Carragher and any Premiership player that is playing for his hometown team, they are not cartoon characters. Some fans believe that Carragher would play for nothing but i think he mentions in his book if Liverpool were not a big club he would have moved somewhere else. What is it they say if you want someone to remain your hero dont meet them...........

[girt_giggler]

Gerrard came across like a bit of a pr**k in his book too.  Reading Robbie Fowler's at the minute before buying Carraghers.

[corn02]

Agreed J70 - the Song and Neil stories made him look like a prat.

Gerrads is a bit dry
Fowlers is excellent - one of ME favourite .

[J70]

Has anyone been reading any of the excerpts from Carragher's book?

I don't know what the entire book is like, but from the few little bits I've read, he seems like a bit of a tosser. Maybe the bigger picture will be more flattering, as serializers obviously pick out the juicy or controversial bits.

Whats he been saying?

As Corn said, look up the stories on Rigobert Song and Lucas Neill. The Neill one is particularly disturbing as he says that a bunch of his mates saw Neill shortly after he broke Carragher's leg and were going to attack him except for the fact that former Liverpool player David Thompson was with Neill at the time. It seems Carragher asked them not to do it because Thompson was there. Maybe he was just getting a dig in at Neill and would have told his mates to get a grip anyway, but its hard to tell from the excerpt. The Song one is maybe more harmless, but he essentially says he took him out in training because Song, who was a rival for a first team place, apparently was sniggering with some of the other players when Carragher got an England call-up. There was also the comment about his brothers finding it hard to get work because of all the foreigners coming in and taking their jobs!

[An Fear Rua]

'When my leg was broken in an horrific tackle by Lucas Neill in September 2003, my mates were ready to hunt him down if I gave the go-ahead.

'A few weeks later I received a phone call. "You won't believe this, Jay. We're in the Trafford Centre and Lucas Neill is walking straight towards us. What do you reckon?"

'Did I really want Neill to take a crack? "There's only one problem," added the voice. "Little Davey Thommo is with him."

'That was that. I could hardly let one of my best mates, David Thompson, now a Blackburn player, become a witness to an assault. Besides he'd have recognised the attackers. The impromptu mission was aborted and I sent a text to Thommo telling him Neill should give him a hug of thanks.

'As word got back to Blackburn about the near miss, or should that be hit, their coach Terry Darracott, a Scouser, appealed to one of my friends to call the boys off. I agreed.'


I wonder what Keane (Roy) makes of this.......

[corn02]

I don't get the Keane reference AFR?

[magpie seanie]

I wonder what Keane (Roy) makes of this.......

Or what the high moral grounders who castigated him for his bit about Haaland in his book think about it? No doubt they'll be along shortly to begin the wringing of hands fest.

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Roy the Boy got banned and fined for saying in his book he wanted to hurt Haaland

[corn02]

While ther eis a mountain of difference between Keane and the Carragher situation, he has come across as a bit of a prat in the Mirror the last few days.

[milltown row]

what the f**k is he talking about? A Hit?? Carragher could not 'HIT' a pass to the midfielders right never mind get his mates to take Neill down.

is our kid Carragher in the Liverpool mob? all sitting about saying Calm down, and lets get Terry, Garry and Barry to take Lucus Neill out........ brillant

[An Fear Rua]

While ther eis a mountain of difference between Keane and the Carragher situation, he has come across as a bit of a prat in the Mirror the last few days.

Roy Keane writes in his book- The first chance I got, I did him
Carragher writes in his book-  The first chance I got, I did him

as you say, a mountain of difference

These quotes are doing exactly what they are supposed to, stirring up interest in the book, the cost is carragher is to come across as a twat, im sure he is overly bothered.

[Mentalman]

While ther eis a mountain of difference between Keane and the Carragher situation, he has come across as a bit of a prat in the Mirror the last few days.

Roy Keane writes in his book- The first chance I got, I did him
Carragher writes in his book-  The first chance I got, I did him

as you say, a mountain of difference

These quotes are doing exactly what they are supposed to, stirring up interest in the book, the cost is carragher is to come across as a t**t, im sure he is overly bothered.

Did Carragher "do him"? Or am I missing something? In any event I thought Keane's ban was a joke, but I don't see these as comparable - i.e. Keane is injured by the player, does him at the first opportunity, then writes about hows he intended to in his book. Carra gets injured by the player, does nothing about it, and then writes in his bio how his firends were going to do something about it? Seems to me at least Keane was prepared to do his own dirty work?

[An Fear Rua]

Did Carragher "do him"? Or am I missing something? In any event I thought Keane's ban was a joke, but I don't see these as comparable - i.e. Keane is injured by the player, does him at the first opportunity, then writes about hows he intended to in his book. Carra gets injured by the player, does nothing about it, and then writes in his bio how his firends were going to do something about it? Seems to me at least Keane was prepared to do his own dirty work?

you are referencing the wrong quote mental man

its this one

"After I established myself at right-back, our African defender Rigobert Song found himself out of the team and our previously healthy relationship instantly deteriorated.

One morning in training he was told I'd been called into the England squad after performing well at full-back.

There was a look of astonishment on Song's face - a bit like the one we used to give him when he claimed he was only 21.

He might as well have blurted out he thought I wasn't good enough for international football.

He strolled off to his French speaking friends and began talking to them. I could see him pointing towards me while everyone was grinning. It was clear what he was saying and the rage inside me simmered.

Later, Song walked on to the training pitch with a smile on his face. He was limping off it with a grimace an hour later. The first chance I got, I did him. Never have I hunted down a 50-50 tackle with greater appetite.

"You're not f***ing laughing now are you, you soft t**t?" I said as he hobbled away.

Did I care he had a knock? No way. I don't remember him or anyone else in the squad for that matter trying to take the piss out of my ability again."

[corn02]

While ther eis a mountain of difference between Keane and the Carragher situation, he has come across as a bit of a prat in the Mirror the last few days.

Roy Keane writes in his book- The first chance I got, I did him
Carragher writes in his book-  The first chance I got, I did him

as you say, a mountain of difference

These quotes are doing exactly what they are supposed to, stirring up interest in the book, the cost is carragher is to come across as a t**t, im sure he is overly bothered.

Eh your going to have to point us to where Carragher did him. So as I say a mountain of difference.

[corn02]

Ah I also thought you were on about the Neil incident.

Yeah you have more of a point there. I suppose the fact that it was an opposing player might be a factor but I see where your coming from. He does say he went and won a 50/50 ball and just went in hard he did not do a keane and go for his leg though.