Jamie Carragher has revealed a strict voting role he used to enforce in the Liverpool dressing room when he played. The 45-year-old former defender-turned-pundit shed light on the PFA Player of the Year selection earlier this week. According to report , he responded to Ian Wright and Jill Scott’s explanation of how they use to make their selections for the player of the year award.
In response, Ian Wright described it as ‘disgraceful’ while Roy Keane said: ‘That’s childish, very immature. That’s not good.’ Yesterday, Carragher dubbed Everton owner Farhad Moshiri one of England’s ‘worst ever club owners’ and called his legacy a ‘shambles’ in the wake of fresh breaches by the Toffees of the Premier League’s spending regulations.
‘I’d get the forms and if I thought someone had a decent chance of winning something Stevie [Gerrard], or Fernando Torres for player of the year it would be like [in the changing room], ‘Well no one can vote for his rival!’, he said. Only one Liverpool player even won the award while Carragher was at Liverpool, and that was Gerrard who took the prize in 2005. The England international made 508 appearances for the Reds in a career that spanned 17 years.
Man City’s Erling Haaland won the PFA Player of the Year award, but there was great controversy as to whether he should have won the 2023 FIFA Best Player. Lionel Messi ended up winning the award after his World Cup winning season, but Haaland’s record 52 goal scoring season was overlooked.
