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11th April 2017
01:08pm BST

Whereas Graeme Souness once labelled this crop of Arsenal players a team of son-in-laws, the perfectly nice gentlemen you'd be happy for your daughter to bring home, Carragher looked sick to the stomach at that same thought.
"What father would want his daughter to bring one of them home?" he said, throat hoarse, nostrils flaring, eyes bulging. "I'm serious. Bottling it, cowards, ducking out of challenges. What type of man would want his daughter to bring home one of them?"Sometimes as a football fan, you can feel pretty helpless. When your anger levels are up and your rational thinking is down, watching a group of pundits and analysts completely miss the point only makes matters worse. All you want is your own grievances to be touched on - even just mentioned - because all you want is to know that you're not the only person going mad. https://twitter.com/SportsJOE_UK/status/851557582129045504 Time and time again, Jamie Carragher has shown that he just gets it. Time and time again, he's there for the guy sitting at home throwing his remote at the TV. Rarely will he miss a talking point. Rarely will his segments be out of touch with what the common people want aired. Rarely - actually, never - will he bottle the opportunity to say exactly how he's feeling on each of those topics because, when it comes down to it, he's just like everybody else. He's just a football man that lives and breathes it. Like Gary Neville makes orgasmic sounds at the sight of Fernando Torres bearing down on the Barcelona goal, Carragher kicks and feels every ball too.
But, unlike Neville who has seemingly taken more of a step back from the punditry and who's probably guilty the odd time of getting through his performances now with pure head, the Liverpool man holds nothing back.
He throws himself recklessly into the role with pure blind faith that it will work out because this is just football and football is what he does. Carragher's just a fan like the rest of us so he's not one bit scared to let those same emotions consume him. He just so happens to be able to back it up with wit, intelligence and 17 years at the top.
Carragher, the defender, divided opinion as to whether or not he deserved to be considered as one of the best. But Carragher's heart, his passion, and his total commitment to the cause was never in question by anyone. Never.
Those same attributes are now driving his punditry career and they're endearing him to the world. The only difference is that there should be no question whatsoever as to whether or not he should considered as one of the best.
Because, honestly, it is a pleasure watching Jamie Carragher now. And it's one of life's great comforts knowing that he'll be there for you when football sooner or later beats you to your knees.
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