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Jamie Carragher admits he ‘crossed line’ by eager to punch Liverpool team-mate

Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher confessed to just about punching his former team-mate Alvaro Arbeloa throughout a match practically 15 years in the past.

The two had a tussle throughout Liverpool’s 2-0 victory in opposition to West Brom in May 2009, which was Arbeloa’s closing season with the Reds. While discussing the Netflix collection ‘The Last Dance’, which follows the profitable Chicago Bulls basketball workforce of the ’90s, Carragher recalled his on-field conflict with Arbeloa.

Opening up in regards to the time he virtually hit his team-mate Arbeloa, Sky Sports pundit Carragher stated: “I used to be on a soccer pitch and practically struck considered one of my very own team-mates, or punched, Arbeloa.

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“Now I do not look again at that proud, however that was at all times going to occur at some stage or one other, or the odd little factor in coaching, since you’re so intense,” he told Sky Sports back in 2020

He admitted it was all about wanting to win and sometimes crossing the line. And Carragher also mentioned a specific incident with Real Madrid legend Arbeloa, explaining it was just a moment of frustration when they were trying to help their goalie win an award. He said: “It was simply frustration, nothing extra, it was over with rapidly.”



Alvaro Arbeloa and Jamie Carragher had been spoken to by referee Martin Atkinson after their argument

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He then in contrast his drive to that of basketball legend Michael Jordan, saying: “Watching that and Michael Jordan and I just absolutely loved how intense the guy was because that’s what I’m like with football.”

He added: “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.”

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