Jamie Carragher at odds with someone behind the scenes at Everton as text messages revealed
Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher admitted he’s been at odds with someone behind the scenes at Everton following his “worst run club” comment earlier this month.
The former Liverpool defender first made the comment on Monday Night Football [23 January] and then took to Twitter [1 February] to post his article in the Telegraph claiming that the Toffees were the “worst run club” in the country.
Carragher has received a lot of criticism for his comments and has revealed he’s been at odds with an Everton insider following his remarks about the club.
Speaking on Across the Park Podcast [10 February], he said: “I don’t think the club is run right, I’ve been vocal on that and I don’t think it’s gone down too well inside the corridors of Goodison Park but I’ll be honest, I had a little bit of back and forth with someone at Everton.
“They were disappointed with what I said and I said ‘you know what, I’m the only pundit anywhere who treats Everton with respect’. What I mean by that is that a lot of people are a bit patronising to Everton I feel on TV, because they are one of those clubs who are never really at the top or the bottom.
“There are stories at the top of the league, Everton are a story the last two years because they’re at the bottom, but more often than not for people who have other teams and are covering TV, they are a team who finish sometimes 8th sometimes 12th. I give Everton respect is that I do more analysis on Everton than others do.
“I feel like I can do a better analysis of Everton than other people on other shows because I am more informed basically. Now I’m more positive about Everton when they’re doing well and go into detail with it but the flip side is that I’m probably more critical when it’s not going well.
“Whereas a lot of people probably aren’t too bothered so that was my point to the person who I was having a few texts back and forth with. I was like ‘hang on, I treat you properly so if you wanted to be treated like a proper top club then you have to take the rough with the smooth.’”
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Carragher certainly had a point about the way Everton is run by the club board and the owner Farhad Moshiri, but he may not have gotten much stick if he had said they are the worst-run club in the Premier League.
However, it’s no surprise an insider from Goodison Park has reacted personally to him as they are always going to defend the interests of the club, but if such remarks are to stop, the club board must simply do better.
It’s been another season of turmoil and unrest simply because of their mismanagement and lack of transparency, so of course someone like Carragher who is paid to discuss the controversy around football is going to make such criticism about their dreadful operations.