Gary Neville leaves Jamie Carragher furious with 'controversial' Liverpool claim

Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher person clashed implicit their opinions of Robbie Fowler's achievements astatine Liverpool and whether he'd person done amended astatine Manchester United

Jamie Carragher reacted with fury aft Gary Neville claimed Robbie Fowler would’ve enjoyed a amended vocation had helium played for Manchester United and not Liverpool.

Fowler is regarded arsenic 1 of Liverpool’s top ever players, having scored 183 goals for the nine aft coming done the academy. The information helium was known simply arsenic “God” among Liverpool fans shows his lasting astatine Anfield and, portion helium besides played for Leeds and Manchester City among others, helium is synonymous with his hometown club.

He helped Liverpool triumph 2 League Cups and FA Cup during 2 spells, but ne'er lifted the Premier League trophy, oregon the Champions League. Meanwhile, his planetary vocation didn’t lucifer up to his nine form, with conscionable 7 goals coming successful 26 caps.

United fable Neville believes that it was the situation that prevented Fowler from ascending to different level. And arsenic a postgraduate of the United academy during the celebrated clip which besides produced Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Nicky Butt and his member Phil, Neville has a unsocial position connected Fowler.

He wasn’t acrophobic to stock his instrumentality with Carragher, Roy Keane and Ian Wright connected Sky Sports amusement The Overlap connected Tour. “Can I marque a arguable statement?” Neville said.

“It mightiness not adjacent beryllium controversial. Robbie Fowler could person been England’s top ever goalscorer if helium hadn’t grown up successful that Liverpool team. So if he’d person been portion of the Class of '92, astatine United.”

Carragher rapidly fired back: “The Class of '92 ne'er went for a drink. Oh my God! We went to Italy and prayed. We went connected walks. The Class of ‘92 won due to the fact that you had Peter Schmeichel, [Eric] Cantona and Roy Keane. It was thing to bash with you. Honest to God!”

Fowler scored 18 goals during the 1993/94 run but truly announced himself astatine Liverpool connected August 28, 1994 erstwhile helium scored a hat-trick successful 4 minutes and 33 seconds successful a 3-0 triumph implicit Arsenal. He was conscionable 19 years aged and was making his 2nd quality of that play for his hometown club.

Liverpool’s homegrown players of that epoch – Fowler, Steve McManaman, Jason McAteer, Jamie Redknapp and David James – were nicknamed the “Spice Boys” owed to unfounded speculation of a romance betwixt Fowler and Spice Girls subordinate Emma Bunton, but accusations astir their deficiency of professionalism person been dismissed.

“Football went from a drinking civilization to really similar a superstar culture. We trained arsenic hard arsenic anybody else, we gave it everything,” McAteer told Sky Sports. “But we fell abbreviated to a truly young Man United squad – the Class of '92 squad had travel through, Eric Cantona was brought in, precise akin to us.

“But what they had, they had a antithetic mentality. If you ticker 95/96, we were arguably the champion squad successful the league successful presumption of watching football, expansive football, free-flowing, goals.”

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