Jamie Carragher chooses the funniest Liverpool teammates and makes a daring Everton claim.
Jamie Carragher name the funniest Liverpool teammates.
Liverpool great Jamie Carragher has picked the most and least terrifying stadiums to play in as a professional footballer, including cross-city rivals Everton on his list as he reminisced some of his most memorable evenings as a Red. Jamie Carragher name the funniest Liverpool teammates.
Carra was no stranger to competing on the grandest stages. For 17 years, the former defender competed for the biggest accolades in the sport, vying for large prizes and winning 11 of 16 finals he appeared in, including one UEFA Champions League.
Playing across Europe put the 45-year-old up against some of his hardest opponents, with Carragher now admitting that games against Olympiacos, Galatasaray, and Besiktas were the most difficult of his career.
“I’d probably say Turkey.” “The toughest places to go away from home are Turkey or Greece,” he told the Scouse House Podcast.
“You know when you go to an Olympiacos game, you’re thinking ‘oh’ an hour before the game, you go out and look at the pitch for a European game.” Turkey was the same – Besiktas, Galatasaray.
“It’s not so much the game as it is the atmosphere; a lot of places can have a great atmosphere once the game starts, but you know you’re thinking ‘this is lively.'” Even an hour before the game, in the warm-up, you’re thinking, ‘Oh, this could go off here,’ so I’d say those spots, but I enjoyed it.”
Carragher played way at Besiktas in a 2007 Reds side that lost 2-1 in the Champions League group stages. Two weeks later though revenge would be sweet, coming in the form of an 8-0 win at Anfield.
One away stadium that he saw a drastic increase in success was Everton’s Goodison Park – the venue named as his least intimidating visit.
“You class Everton as a rival, obviously, alongside a Chelsea or United or Arsenal, but they were never as good as those teams,” Carragher explained.
“So when you go to their grounds, it’s an intimidating atmosphere, almost like a derby game at Old Trafford, and they have top quality players, so it’s always going to be difficult to win there.” But it had that feeling with Everton, it was a rivalry game, but we were better than them and you always knew that.
“In terms of winning, we had a great record there.” I think of all the success Liverpool had in the 1970s and 1980s, but I believe we won there four years in a row under Gerard Houllier, which was a record. Even Jurgen Klopp’s team, I don’t believe, does this.
“At Everton, we had a great record, and I used to enjoy going to Goodison Park.” Excellent ambiance.”
In another section of the chat, the ex-Liverpool player was asked who the funniest Liverpool players were during his tenure at the club.
“Didi Hamann was a comedian who used to make me laugh. Pepe Reina was also a major character. “Danny Murphy – he’d always make me laugh and giggle,” Carra replied.
“Pepe was a big character, Danny was funny with one-liners, and Didi was just a bit mad, so you’d almost be laughing at some of his antics or the gear he was wearing or what he’d been up to.” Despite the fact that he was foreign, he managed to capture our wit and humour. He realized what was going on.
“Craig Bellamy was hilarious – very funny, unless you were on the receiving end of his sharp tongue.” I believe we had a few of little ones – a little banter. We were fighting over how brilliant he was as a player, so we were winding him up, and he’d been liked everywhere he’d gone.
“He’d played for a lot of clubs and he said ‘name one club where you don’t see my name’, so I went ‘Liverpool’ and he said ‘alright, besides Liverpool!’”
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