2025-06-20
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How Jamie Carragher conquered football punditry by Kieran Morris.
Read by Filipe Pacheco.
Jamie Carragher's legs were aching.
He'd been speaking to a Sky Sports cameraman for 25 minutes.
Usually, for a news interview it's just 10, but today he called for something more.
Reports were coming out that Trent Alexander-Arnold,
who inherited Carragher's mantle as the local mainstay of Liverpool's defence,
was about to announce his long-expected departure from his boiled club.
And so, as sure as day follows night,
a camera crew had been hastily dispatched to Carragher's whereabouts to find a quiet spot,
hit record and get his opinions out to viewers before they'd had a chance to fully form their own.
How much was there to say about a subject that had already been talked about all season long?
Quite a lot, it turned out.
Like a hunter-gatherer extracting a week's worth of food from a seemingly arid wilderness,