Jamie Carragher comes clean about Man Utd trial as Gary Neville brands him traitor

Jamie Carragher is simply a existent one-club man, playing implicit 700 times for Liverpool, but it turns retired their bitter rivals Manchester United tried to coax him successful his youth

Liverpool icon Jamie Carragher admitted helium erstwhile had a proceedings astatine Manchester United – overmuch to the amazement of Sky Sports adjacent Gary Neville.

A boyhood instrumentality of different Reds rival, Everton, Carragher archetypal entered the top-flight limelight successful 1997, and made his Liverpool debut successful a League Cup necktie against Middlesbrough - never looking back.

Fast-forward 16 years, and the defender retired arsenic 1 of the club’s astir decorated servants, having played 737 times for them and won two FA Cups, 3 League Cups and a Champions League title.

However, conscionable arsenic things would person played retired otherwise had helium possibly pursued his puerility affinity for the Toffees, Carragher has present travel cleanable astir a abbreviated stint helium had with the Red Devils, shocking punditry workfellow Neville.

“I had similar a trial… I went to Man Utd for a small spot - I ne'er told you that,” Carragher exclaimed to Neville, speaking connected The Overlap On Tour: Unseen Bits, brought to you by Sky Mobile.

“There was a Sunday squad who were playing a Man United select, but they weren't similar Manchester lads; it was similar lads from each astir the state who got enactment together.

“And I played for a Sunday team, truthful they asked maine to play due to the fact that they were playing Man United, determination wasn’t nary 1 successful my squad truthful it was to marque them a spot stronger.

“So, I played successful this crippled and did rather well. Nobby Stiles was moving this squad and pulled my dada aft it. It was conscionable earlier I was signing the schoolboy forms for Liverpool.

“My dada wants to marque Liverpool deliberation that it wasn’t casual conscionable to motion me. So, I ended up going to a Man United thing; we stayed Friday and Saturday nighttime and played connected Sunday.

“But, what was – and again, I accidental astir Man United being up of the crippled – each the lads who were connected this weekend, erstwhile we went for the trials, it was each the aforesaid lads.“

Asked if helium got successful by Neville, who played retired his full vocation with United, Carragher replied: “No, I was ne'er going. I conscionable went there, and my dada conscionable utilized it. It wasn’t adjacent my decision; I was conscionable told I was going to play a game. I retrieve Ferguson being there.”

“You kept that quiet, you were consenting to play for Man Utd,” Neville retorted. “You treacherous traitor. You should beryllium connected that programme Traitors, you." Carragher past jokingly admitted: “I spell from Everton to Liverpool to Man Utd - I'll bash thing for a fewer quid!”

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