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"You get it happening the other way but people don't make such a fuss about it. Everton have two youngsters - Jose Baxter and Jack Rodwell - breaking through now and both of them are Reds. If we could, we'd take them as they both look very good!"
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Says Carragher..,blabbing to the press again - i didnt know Rodwell supported Liverpool though? :huh:



Anyway, the rest is the same boring crap...

MEMORY...
"It was in the autumn of 1984 and my dad took me to Anfield. We could only get tickets in the Main Stand surrounded by Liverpool fans, but it didn't matter - when Graeme Sharp scored a brilliant goal we went nuts. Everton won 1-0 - their first win at Anfield for years. That was a great Everton team who went on to win the league that season. Andy Gray, Peter Reid and Neville Southall were all top players, but Graeme Sharp was always my favourite."

PLAYGROUND MEMORIES...
"The derby was massive. The build up was always tense, you were full of nerves and so worried you'd lose. When I was a kid, the match was not only about local pride - the league was usually at stake too. If you lost, you wouldn't want to go into school. If you won, the bragging rights in the playground were yours and you'd lord it over the kids who were Reds. You wanted the other team to lose every match. I remember when Arsenal beat Liverpool 2-0 in the last game of the 1988-89 season to steal the title - us Evertonians celebrated like we'd won the league!"

WEARING MY COLOURS...
"I used to go to Liverpool's School Of Excellence at the age of 11 wearing my Everton shirt, pretending I was Graeme Sharp. I wasn't trying to wind anyone up. I later got a Barcelona one as Gary Lineker left Goodison Park to go there."

BECOMING A RED...
"I'd gone to Liverpool's academy and then was with Everton's for a year. But I realised I'd made a mistake so went back to Liverpool. I just enjoyed it much more there and knew it was the right place for me. The day I signed was massive. My old man was a huge Evertonian but he understood and realised that I was in the right place. There seemed to be a load of Blues joining Liverpool and doing well back then: myself, Robbie Fowler, Steve McManaman, Michael Owen. People ask why but I think it was just coincidence. You get it happening the other way but people don't make such a fuss about it. Everton have two youngsters - Jose Baxter and Jack Rodwell - breaking through now and both of them are Reds. If we could, we'd take them as they both look very good!"

MEETING EVERTON'S NEMESIS...
"Ian Rush was the man all Evertonians loved to hate. He always scored vital goals against Everton. I didn't make it into the team before he left but it was weird to be around a guy who, when I was a kid, had caused me such pain. I remember when Rushie first left Liverpool for Italy in 1987, Toffees fans threw street parties! But he came back a year later and carried on scoring."

FIRST-EVER MERSEYSIDE DERBY...
"The first ever derby I played in was in February 1998 at Anfield. I was only 20 and played centre-back so it was a big test for me, but I think I came through it quite well. It finished 1-1 with Duncan Ferguson scoring for them and Paul Ince equalising. As I played more, I started getting stick from Evertonians. That helped me take Liverpool to my heart."

FUNNIEST DERBY MEMORY...
"I was suspended at the time, so I was in the stands when Robbie Fowler snorted the touchline after scoring a penalty against Everton in 1999. We were in hysterics. We couldn't believe he'd done it, but it was typical Robbie, wasn't it? Crazy!"

THE MODERN DERBY...
"These days, the derby has got a bit nasty. The atmosphere isn't what it used to be. I can't put my finger on why it's gone that way but everyone heard the songs aimed at the likes of Stevie Gerrard last season and it's not good. Hopefully, we can get it back to how it used to be."

WHAT IT MEANS TO ME...
"This is massive. As a Scouser, the games vs Everton are the biggest and a match we have to do well in to progress. I like playing at Goodison - the atmosphere's electric and the pitch is tight to the crowd. Hopefully we can get the result we need."

PUB FACT: When he joined Liverpool, Jamie Carragher was a striker. He's since been converted to midfield, full-back and centre-back
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Sport: Carragher: 'The Derby's Nasty!'
 

I wish he would stop telling everyone he used to be a blue...no one even cares!

I kinda wish he had come to us as a kid, only cos we could have f*cked him up like Michael Ball, Jeffers, Cadamarteri etc etc
 

PUB FACT: When he joined Liverpool, Jamie Carragher was a striker. He's since been converted to midfield, full-back and centre-back
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Grand Old Team : When he joined Liverpool, Jamie Carragher was a striker. He's since been converted to an arrogant big mouthed red [Poor language removed] gob [Poor language removed] tosspot.
 
Jamie Carragher is preparing himself for a hotter reception than ever at Goodison Park today after lavishing praise on David Moyes but pouring scorn on Everton's supporters and hierarchy.

The long-serving Liverpool defender joined in the debate over Moyes' uncertain future by hailing him as Everton's best manager for 20 years and describing the 'People's Club' tag he came up with as a 'stroke of genius'.

In his newly-published autobiography Carra, though, he risks an angry backlash at today's lunchtime kick-off by blaming Everton fans for mounting hostility between the rival factions and deriding the Goodison board as 'small-minded' over their spat with Rafael Benitez last season.


An undertone of spite has crept into the derby day atmosphere and Carragher was adamant about Everton's culpability as he explained his admiration for Moyes but contempt for some sections of the club he once idolised.

'Moyes is the person I have respected most at Everton,' he said. 'Without doubt, he is their best manager in 20 years, and the quip about Everton being the People's Club, on the day he took over, was genius. It wound up Liverpudlians but got Evertonians on his side, so fair play. Brilliant stuff.

'That's what it is all about in this city. If you can make your own fans proud of you and get your rivals' backs up at the same time, it's a classic double whammy.


'But when Rafael went for a bit of revenge and called them a small club, after they came to Anfield for a draw, how did they react? They put a statement on their official website, having a go back. How small-time can you get? It was embarrassing. At board level, you should show some dignity and rise above the banter.

'There is an exaggerated perception of how well Liverpool and Everton fans used to get on 20 years ago but, equally, I have noticed a much meaner atmosphere at more recent derbies.


'As someone who has been a Blue and a Red, I feel qualified to say where it all went wrong and I feel the responsibility lies mainly with the way Everton fans reacted to their barren spell. That, plus their treatment of Liverpool players who are my friends as well as teammates.

'It has added a sinister element to the traditional rivalry and led to a complete transformation in my loyalties, to the extent that I now hate losing to Everton more than any other side in the world.

'Hate would be too strong to describe my feelings towards them, but I do hate what their fans sing about Steven Gerrard and his family at every derby. It is personal, vindictive and disgusting and would be unacceptable in any form of life, let alone football.

'All players face flak from opposition fans, but when people start telling lies and repeat them in despicable chants, I am appalled.

'It has become a lot worse over the years and is a big reason why my relationship with Everton has turned sour. When you see your best mates being attacked unjustly, there is no way back.'

Everton's players are also taken to task by Carragher, who added: 'There have been times when I have made a point of biting my lip after a derby to show some respect. 'Our 3-0 defeat at Goodison was a classic example. I had a nightmare and was nowhere near 100 per cent, but when I was quizzed straight after the game, I just said we were beaten fair and square.

'Too often, the same courtesy isn't shown to us by Everton. We always knew Alan Stubbs would have a good cry about something, especially if we had won but, to be fair, he's as Blue as they come. He liked playing to the gallery and we always had a giggle at his expense in the dressing room.


'There are times, though, when I feel they have zero respect for us. While we tiptoe round, making sure we don't cause a furore, many of their former and present players seem to feel they are free to **** us off. It has become a small but annoying sub-plot of every derby.

'A Goodison persecution complex has developed and it's not just the players. There are plenty at Everton who have done their club no favours when talking about Liverpool and you really would expect their hierarchy to be more considered and careful with their remarks.'

Carragher's growing antipathy towards his Mersey rivals is a far cry from his schoolboy days, when he even turned up for five-a-sides at Liverpool's School of Excellence wearing an Everton kit.

'I was only 11, but everyone called me Sharpy because they all knew Graeme Sharp was my hero,' he said. 'I was the biggest Blue in Bootle and no one cheered louder when Michael Thomas scored that last-minute goal at Anfield to make Arsenal champions instead. There was a big "Thank you, Arsenal" scrawled on the wall of a nearby pub and I laughed my head off. 'It's not true I've got an Everton tattoo on my arm, but I was Everton-mad growing up. How times have changed. In my mind, the club I loved in the 80s and the team I see now are poles apart.'
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Too all teh bold parts: **** LOL then **** **** and **** again and then HA to that last one.

Hope he falls on his arm which snaps and goes directly into his chest so he cant talk again. :@
 
The bold parts above are testament to the skewered thinking that blights most RS. They start with the jibes and when Everton react, we are accused of being small-minded and reacting badly to banter. Perhaps if they didnt want a response they should have considered their words a bit more carefully. I dont mind banter but coming from them, and what they have thrown at us recently, it cuts a bit deeper than that. Its just plain arrogance.
 
We should "rise above the banter" yet it's ok for Rafael to stoop so low to make that comment?

Why doesn't he have to "rise above it" and not make the comment at all?

Idiots, the lot of them.

Seriously. They don't have a clue.
 

Dont give a [Poor language removed] if a person "USED" to be a blue.....because if you "used" to be, then surely you never were a proper blue in the first place. Most of us would never desert the club we love....Unless we are fickle supporters and not real fans.

So to be polite "[Poor language removed] Carragher the redshite **** and all he stands for" :@
 
Namdrater said:
As rude as he is about us, I have to admit I get quite interested in what he's got to say next.
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He is just an average player coming to the end of his career,he will be just another drunken yob in the pub soon enough,no brains and no class typifies what the media home in on when calling scousers,we all get tarred with the same brush:@
 
Rodwell's dad is definatly a Blue, he used to coach a team in Toxteth a few years ago. I've heard Jack is aswell to be honest, his my space says he's a Blue.
 
Sick of Everton constantly being considered the 'nasty' club or the pitiable club on Merseyside and that how Liverpool and its players court the press and spout such tripe is utterly disgusting. We probably do it as well, but not to so large an extent. Honestly, Liverpool give as good as they get and I've always found David Moyes has been entirely respectful towards Liverpool but Benitez has been quite happy to be rather insulting about Everton. I shouldn't care because it's mostly in terrible newspapers that aren't worth the paper they're written on, but cry me a bloody river, Carragher. Liverpool fans aren't as innocent as you like to make out. Everton aren't an insulting or unpleasant club. I know it's banter, but I find it saddening that people feel the need to stoop to such a level. Makes me glad we've someone like Moyes as manager rather than Benitez.
 

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