Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher confessed to nearly punching his former team-mate Alvaro Arbeloa during a match nearly 15 years ago.
The two had a tussle during Liverpool’s 2-0 victory against West Brom in May 2009, which was Arbeloa’s final season with the Reds. While discussing the Netflix series ‘The Last Dance’, which follows the successful Chicago Bulls basketball team of the ’90s, Carragher recalled his on-field clash with Arbeloa.
Opening up about the time he almost hit his team-mate Arbeloa, Sky Sports pundit Carragher said: “I was on a football pitch and nearly struck one of my own team-mates, or punched, Arbeloa.
“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 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 just frustration, nothing more, it was over with quickly.”
He then compared 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.”
