Given Liverpool’s recent successes it’s easy to forget about the decades that have gone before. The years and years where Liverpool were desperate even just for a flicker of success.
The worst it got was probably towards the end of the Hicks and Gillett era. Roy Hodgson’s abysmal few months in the job, and some of the forgettable players who wore the Liverpool shirt in that era.
In those times as Manchester United dominated the whole of English football, Liverpool wanted nothing more than to get one over them. And it seems it’s not only the fans who felt this way but the players as well going by Jamie Carragher’s recent comments.
Jamie Carragher reveals Liverpool ‘tactic’
Speaking on the Stick to Football podcast with Ian Wright and Roy Keane, Carragher revealed what Liverpool used to do when the club’s players had to vote for awards.
“Did it get political when you were doing it? I would get the forms basically and if we thought someone had a decent chance of winning something. You would think Stevie or Torres had a chance of Player of at the Year or something and it would be like nobody can vote for his rival. I’d make sure,” Carragher said.
Keane and Wright were audibly not impressed by that revelation though.
“That is disgraceful,” Wright said.
“That’s not good.” Keane added.
Whether that was the right thing to do or not. It certainly epitomises just how starved of success Liverpool’s players were in that era. Carragher and his teammates were seemingly eager for accolades. And you can’t blame them – when all your rivals do is win – you just want something to celebrate as well.
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