Speaking on the It’s a Funny Old Life Podcast, Jamie Carragher has been discussing his departure from Liverpool and his retirement from football.
The England international hung up his boots in 2013, and while he has no regrets about his career, he says that there is one moment that makes him wish he’d have stayed on one extra season.
Indeed, Carragher says he wishes he could have been on the pitch against Chelsea in 2014 in the infamous Steven Gerrard slip game as he feels his experience would have been invaluable to that team at that time.
What’s been said?
Carragher spoke about the Chelsea game.
“I always think, I would love to have stayed on, I would have loved to have been on the pitch for the second-half of that Chelsea game. We were losing 1-0 and when I watch that back, we did so many stupid things with the ball through desperation. With my experience talking to players and organising them, I’d been there so often where we need a goal and it’s like ‘don’t panic, just keep doing the right thing, and eventually in front of the Kop something always happens’, and you just feel something happening,” Carragher said.
Could’ve calmed Gerrard
As much as every Liverpool fan loves Steven Gerrard, it has to be said that the midfielder was at the heart of many of the ‘stupid things’ Carragher mentioned on that day.
Beyond the slip, Gerrard continuously tried potshots from 20+ yards in the hopes of levelling the game on his own, but sadly, he couldn’t pull it off.
Gerrard was able to get away with consistently doing this as he was surrounded by young inexperienced players who may have been scared to challenge him.
However, if Carragher was there alongside him, the centre-half could have told Gerrard to calm down and keep doing the right things, and after spending 15 years playing in the same team, he probably would have listened.
As Carragher says, his talent wouldn’t have changed the game that day, but perhaps his leadership would.
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