It was a great watch Adam. You have a really nice, warm and down to earth approach that puts people at ease.
Carragher basically comes accross how I expected as a down to earth, intelligent, decent lad. Most who've met him echo he's a good egg really. He spoke thoughtfully about Everton and there was no condescension or nastiness to the jokes he had.
I agree with you re Robles but also can see why he says it. He's not well known and his performances have been under the radar. The one higher profile match we've played he had his only shocker.
Carraghers big omission for me is his book which is needlessly angry and out of character. I do think a lot of what he says about us is a case of projection. Rather than viewing his switch between blue to red and the inevitable and unavoidable path most footballers would take playing for their rivals he had to make a bigger play of it.
It is a path on both sides have taken, Fowler, Mcmanaman, Mchahon, Rush, Watson, Reid, (allegedly Hibbert) etc. I sense he was a massive blue before though and the switch caused a lot of confusion and could only be justified to himself as Evertonians being horrible and changing. In the end his relationship to the club changed which is no dig at him, its actually to his credit for being such a pro. Theres a real sadness when you here of the lad warming up at Anfield trying to tell his dad the Everton score. As he said, his dad told him that couldn't go on.
He probably doesn't want to acknowledge it (for reasons above) but you can hear the warmth for the Everton he supported. The way he Freudian slip said "we" after Kanchelskis winning the Derby and I'm sure he would still remember the 80s fondly.
It's a great interview and really enjoyed the bit about how he viewed Everton players. That incite is incredibly valuable and probably couldn't be got from 10
Everton players. He saw Everton players as weak.
Anyway great work and thanks to Carragher.
