'So Carragher, what's your perspective on the WBA vs. Norwich game?' (In high pitched scouse voice); 'Well yeahh, eh eh eh, yeah yeah no Liverpooool are they! Eh eh eh we won everything....eh eh eh eh, they can't compete us with us...eh eh It's gona be our year this year! Eh eh these two teams are irrelevant!' He asks off air if they are impressed with his usage of a big word like irrelevant.
I'm not saying this to be insulting, but Carragher doesn't strike me as the most insightful or eloquent pundit. Not sure why they've gone for him. Following after Neville might make it particularly difficult for him too, as there's no doubt that he's raised the bar, despite being a twat as a player.
Like you I don't want to sound like i'm insulting carragher but I cannot see what he'll bring to the party. Nice enough bloke from his interviews but can't imagine him setting the world alight. He also strikes me as quiite a respectful person so i don't he's going to want to say anything that could in any way be rude to recent colleagues or opponents. He's no roy Keane and i mean that in the nicest way possible!
Not sure about that. When people said it about Djemba-Djemba, I'm pretty sure that it wasn't intended as a compliment!
Carragher is supposed to be an encylopedia of football. So I heard on the radio he knows every fact and figure about football going back to the year dot. Providing people can understand him he might be quite enlightening. Alternatively Sky could employ a translator.
Neville isn't so much a pundit as an analyst. It's been a surprise to see just how insightful he is. You genuinely learn something when you watch his analysis. Most of the rest talk in cliches and tell us nothing we didn't already know. I hope Carragher is a student of the game like Neville is, although I suspect he's been chosen because he knows the current generation of players well. Many of Sky's pundits have been out of the game too long to pass on any relevant information about managers, players or even officials in the game.
Do you think he is wasted doing this, i think he should take his coaching badges and start in management in a low league to see how he does.
Good point. But he may like the analysis/punditry lark rather than the pressure and hassle of management/coaching a la Lineker, to name but one.
If they beat 'Pool today, in the Merseyside derby, at Klanfield, they'll be crowned "the Kings of Merseyside" for a successive year, something not achieved since the early 70s. Without Goofy, 'Pool have looked a lot more balanced, and his absence for today's match (for his infamous and despicable biting incident) will be a blessing for many red Mousers. On recent form, one has to say that a draw is, perhaps, the best that Everton can hope for, but this is the Merseyside derby and anything can happen. Perhaps even Carragher might have a half-decent game? Who knows? Of one thing we can be assured, though, is that Mousers on both sides of the colour divide will be getting very excited today, drinking lots of ale, and shouting a lot. However, later this evening, when the match is over, one side of that divide will be dusting off his shell-suit and looking forward to a night of hard partying to Cilla Black records, whilst the other will be going out to one of Mersyside's many nightclubs and looking for a fight with a bouncer. None of it will be pretty.
now you've managed to piss off the other half of merseyside as well!..I can foresee a flurry of red bars heading your way!...
Talking about 'bars' NSS - just seen your Rep - 1766 in the green!!! Have you been sweet-talking the Toon on the QT???? lol
I do agree with you HIAG, the red mousers do look better balanced without Lucrezia Borgia. However, my major concern for them is who is going to be Gerrards 'No. 2' when Carragher retires? How are the mousers going to harrang the ref? Will Gerrard feel like little boy lost without deputy mouse? I do hope Lucrezia doesn't start biting the officials, it might be entertaining, particularly Webb or Clattenberg, but it just wouldn't be cricket.
