Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville have been TV co-hosts for a number of years now, with their fiery debates drawing in viewers by the millions
Gary Neville has opened up on his relationship with Jamie Carragher on and off camera. Neville and Carragher are two of Sky Sports most high-profile pundits, having worked together on the channel for several years following their respective retirements as players.
The pair regularly spar with each other on air, having previously gone head-to-head on the pitch during their playing days at Liverpool and Manchester United. They are now widely-regarded as two of the best football voices around, even if they don’t always agree on everything to do with the beautiful game.
Neville opened up about their relationship and their personalities in a recent episode of The Overlap with Sky Sports. Explaining why he and Carragher might sometimes clash despite their evident rapport as Sky Sports pundits, Neville highlighted that it comes down to personality rather than club loyalties.
When quizzed about who he’d least like to share a room with from his co-presenters, Neville revealed: “I think I would be stitched up because you can’t separate Roy [Keane] and Ian [Wright] – so they would definitely room together.
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“Which would mean I’d be put with Jamie Carragher who is definitely the last person I’d want. What is it about Carra that means I wouldn’t want to room with him? I just don’t want to listen to a minute more of him than I need to,” reports the Mirror.
“He is constantly ‘on’ and I’m sure he’d say the same about me, but I think sometimes intensity meeting intensity doesn’t work. Basically, I need a little bit more Yin and Yang, rather than what we are which is more Yin and Yin.”
Despite differing views on various topics, it’s interesting to note that earlier this year Neville and Carra were united in their belief that the England manager position should remain in domestic hands. Neville elaborated his position to Sky Sports in July, sharing: “Over the years we have had every type of manager – the fashionable, the international manager, best English managers, people who have come through the ranks with youth teams.
“There is no science in terms of what works and there are obvious contenders. Graham Potter and Eddie Howe will get mentioned and I think it will definitely be an English manager.
“Moving to St George’s Park was to promote and develop English coaches. To take that away from an English manager and give it to an international manager would be wrong.”
Carragher, meanwhile, explained: “I’m not a believer in foreign managers managing England. It’s nothing against foreigners – what foreign managers and players have done to the Premier League is amazing.
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“It’s basically made what our league is today which is the envy of the world. But we’re not an emerging nation, we’re England and I know we’ve only won one trophy but other countries on our level – Italy, Spain, Germany – they don’t have foreign managers.
“We don’t need a foreign manager, we’ve done it before.” In the wake of Thomas Tuchel being appointed as Gareth Southgate’s successor last week, with eyes set on the 2026 World Cup, Neville has doubled down on his stance.
Despite pledging his support for Tuchel, the pundit raised concerns during atalk on Sky Sports News, sharing: “I do think we are damaging ourselves accepting Thomas Tuchel is better than any of the other English coaches. We are in a rut when it comes to English coaching. English coaching is one of the least respected big nations in Europe when it comes to taking charge of a football team.”
