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Bruno Fernandes issues Jamie Carragher apology after celebrating England failure

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Bruno Fernandes recalled Jamie Carragher's infamous penalty miss against his beloved Portugal at the 2006 World Cup, and the Manchester United captain felt compelled to apologiseBruno Fernandes has said 'sorry' to Jamie Carragher after bringing up his penalty miss for England against Portugal at the 2006 World Cup. I had to say this - sorry, Jamie," the United captain admitted before turning to the camera.WORLD CUP LEGENDS: The stars who lit up football's greatest tournament - Buy the Special Edition todayREAD MORE: Tottenham star Micky van de Ven has firm favourite between Liverpool and Man UtdREAD MORE: Jamie Carragher says Chelsea need new owners in furious takedown after Liam Rosenior axe"I had to get a little bit off you, you get on me all the time.



I can get on you with that penalty. In his column for The Telegraph, the former Liverpool centre-back said: "Sven Goran Eriksson summoned me and gave me one job: to dispatch a spot-kick as convincingly as I had in every practise session."I had not missed a penalty in six weeks. 'You'll take the fourth', Eriksson told me.

England were 2-1 down by the time I made that 40-yard walk, but I was feeling confident staring at Portugal's No. Now I was engaged in a game of bluff with Ricardo, wrongly presuming he would think I would try to score in exactly the same way.