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Jamie Carragher made his presence known with brutal Gary Neville comment

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It didn't take long for Carragher to deliver a putdown to Neville, coming out with the famous "no one wants to grow up and be a Gary Neville" line on his Monday Night Football debut. "Two things for a full-back, you're either a failed winger or a failed center-back," Carragher said ahead of a game between Swansea City and Liverpool, before Neville responded: "Thanks for that!



I just failed!" Clarifying his comment, Carragher said: "You (Neville) grew up as a center-back! A few years ago, Neville recalled being asked by the Sky producers about the possibility of Carragher joining the Monday Night Football team, which at the time seemed like a risk due to the success of the show with just Neville as its main pundit.

"After a few months, I remember telling the producer at the time that we have to make sure the show evolves otherwise it will get stale and I’ll get stale," Neville told Sports Joe. "If I said, ‘No way, I’m not working with him’ - it would have had a big influence, but I was 100 percent up for it.