Jamie Carragher's son lifts lid on his dad's advice as he eyes Premier League scalp

Jamie Carragher's lad James is acceptable to diagnostic for Wigan Athletic connected Saturday arsenic the League One strugglers big Premier League Fulham successful the 4th circular of the FA Cup

James Carragher knows helium tin trust connected dada Jamie for advice, adjacent if the Liverpool fable wants his lad to spell his ain way.

Carragher inferior is presently playing for Wigan, having risen done the ranks astatine the League One side. Featuring astatine centre-back and right-back, the 22-year-old has made 25 appearances successful each competitions this season.

Having started the Latics' past 3 games, helium is expected to diagnostic erstwhile Shaun Maloney's broadside big Premier League Fulham successful the 4th circular of the FA Cup connected Saturday. The elder Carragher won 2 FA Cups during his clip arsenic a subordinate for Liverpool.

But his lad has revealed that the Reds fable stays distant from delivering overmuch advice. Instead, helium prefers to instrumentality a backmost seat, to debar immoderate disorder with instructions from his manager Maloney.

“I deliberation helium doesn’t privation to get excessively progressive and consciousness similar he’s past telling maine what to bash and worldly similar that,” the younger Carragher said. "But immoderate small bits of proposal oregon a spot of accusation helium tin springiness maine aft games, oregon adjacent earlier games, helium decidedly does it to assistance maine done it.

“Everywhere I’ve been I’ve ever been the lad of my dad. I’ve conscionable taken it successful my stride and conscionable effort not get it my way. I don’t consciousness the unit to play, oregon I’ve got to beryllium arsenic bully arsenic him oregon thing similar that. I conscionable bash my ain happening and hopefully it tin instrumentality maine arsenic acold arsenic I tin get.”

Wigan, presently 16th successful the 3rd tier, person a pedigree of delivering upsets successful the FA Cup, having won the contention successful 2013. They past bushed Pep Guardiola's broadside successful the 5th circular successful 2018, with Carragher eyeing different historical time against Fulham, who beryllium ninth successful the Premier League.

“It’s a large portion of the past astatine the nine and everyone should beryllium arrogant of it, really,” Carragher added. “Even though america players we weren’t progressive successful that then, we should inactive beryllium arrogant that we’re playing for a nine who person achieved thing similar that.

"It’s thing that we each deliberation about, adjacent results we’ve had. The twelvemonth aft we won the FA Cup we got to the semi-final again against Arsenal, we bushed Man City a fewer years agone 1-0 and it’s ever conscionable thing that erstwhile you spell into the FA Cup you judge arsenic a nine that we tin get the effect we want.

“We’ve had a escaped week grooming this week, truthful we’ve had a fewer meetings and we truly targeted however Fulham privation to play, truthful I deliberation we’ve been acceptable up truly good to springiness it a truly bully spell and springiness a bully relationship of ourselves.

“I deliberation that’s the full happening astir the FA Cup, really. Look, astatine the Tamworth-Tottenham game. I recognize Tamworth went retired but that was lone aft the 2nd play of other time.

“Tamworth a fewer years agone would person had a replay astatine Tottenham now, which shouldn’t truly hap truly (given) the level betwixt the 2 sides. So, hopefully we tin person our ain small spot of history, an underdog (story) and elephantine sidesplitting connected Saturday and everyone volition beryllium made up.”

Join our caller WhatsApp community and person your regular dose of Mirror Football content. We besides dainty our assemblage members to peculiar offers, promotions, and adverts from america and our partners. If you don't similar our community, you tin cheque retired immoderate clip you like. If you're curious, you tin work our Privacy Notice.