Never Forget Lads
"My mates were ready to hunt him down if I gave the go-ahead.
"A few weeks later I received a phone call. 'You won't believe this, Jay. We're in the Trafford Centre and Lucas Neill is walking straight towards us. What do you reckon?'
"Did I really want Neill to take a crack? 'There's only one problem,' added the voice. 'Little Davey Thommo is with him.'
"That was that. I could hardly let one of my best mates, David Thompson, now a Blackburn player, become a witness to an assault.
"Besides, he'd have recognised the attackers. The impromptu mission was aborted and I sent a text to Thommo telling him Neill should give him a hug of thanks."
Carragher added: "As word got back to Blackburn about the near miss, or should that be hit, their coach Terry Darracott, a Scouser, appealed to one of my friends to call the boys off. I agreed."