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The Liverpool academy graduate played four times during the Champions League campaign, but missed the final through injury.READ MORE: Liverpool insiders give clue over Mohamed Salah’s Anfield future after social media storm – EXCLUSIVEAnd as he admitted to GOAL, Carson felt that Kirkland was perhaps more deserving of a medal than he was.“I felt strange, to be honest,” he said in May 2020. “I’d not been at the club long, so it didn’t really feel like my success, if you get me?
I didn’t feel like I’d earned it.”“You see some people at the front of the celebrations and they have barely played. I’m not sure he spoke a word of English to be honest, but he made sure he was front and centre when the cup was being lifted!“I’ve seen other players do it, and you think ‘what are you doing?’.
I arrived when most of the groundwork had been done.” “He deserved it more,” he said of Kirkland, who is said to have ‘politely declined’ the offer. Carson never had a chance once Pepe Reina arrivedAlthough Carson may have felt he had a shot at ousting Dudek from the Liverpool XI, he did not stand a chance once Pepe Reina was signed in the wake of Istanbul.Kirkland left that summer, allowing Dudek and Carson to battle it out as the Spaniard’s number two.Benitez still preferred Dudek, with the Pole playing six times to Carson’s four during the 2005/06 season.
