In a heated argument more than ten years ago, Liverpool icon Jamie Carragher acknowledged that he came dangerously close to punching Alvaro Arbeloa, a former teammate.
The legendary player for Liverpool, Jamie Carragher, has admitted to almost punching Alvaro Arbeloa in a game over fifteen years ago.
In May 2009, during Liverpool’s 2-0 victory against West Brom, Arbeloa’s last season with the Reds, the two got into a brawl. Carragher remembered his on-field altercation with Arbeloa during a discussion of the Netflix series “The Last Dance,” which is centred around the successful Chicago Bulls basketball team of the 1990s.
“I was on a football pitch and nearly struck one of my own team-mates, or punched, Arbeloa,” Sky Sports pundit Carragher revealed, opening up about the incident.
“Now I don’t look back at that proud, but that was always going to happen at some stage or another, or the odd little thing in training, because you’re so intense,” he stated to Sky Sports in 2020.
He acknowledged that it was all about trying to succeed and perhaps going overboard. In addition, Carragher brought up a particular incident involving Real Madrid icon Arbeloa, clarifying that it was merely a brief fit of annoyance during their attempt to support their goaltender in winning an honour. He stated: “It was just frustration, nothing more, it was over with quickly.”
He continued, stating, “Watching that and Michael Jordan and I just absolutely loved how intense the guy was because that’s what I’m like with football,” drawing a comparison between his drive and that of the legendary basketball player.
He continued: “The drive and relentlessness, I admired it, there’s no way I would criticise that, because of what he done for those players around him and where he took his club.”
