Jamie Carragher's Passionate Statement
By Michael Lynch
January 24 2004
Jamie Carragher, who's returning to fitness after a broken leg, has directed this statement towards the people that he has heard knocking their French manager.
Jamie Carragher issued this passionate statement to the official site directed atanyone that might be knocking Liverpool's manager Gerard Houllier.
"When Gerard Houllier does eventually leave, people
will look back at what he achieved and the trophies he won and consider this to
be a golden period for the club," claimed Carra. "There's always
someone who's done more here. If Liverpool hadn't won all those league titles
years ago and then we'd won that treble, we'd be legends forever.
"We've been to Cardiff more than any other club, and we shouldn't take our
trips there for granted. Compared to other clubs, what we've achieved under
Girard Houllier is exceptional. It's not that we've beaten Mickey Mouse teams to
do it: Arsenal, Manchester United, Roma, Bayern Munich, all big teams. But we're
Liverpool and, because the fans have been brought up on winning the league, the
title is everything. It hangs around our necks, even though that was a different
era. Our last championship was 14 years ago and it's not as if Gerard was
manager immediately after we last won it.
"Winning the league every year is United's thing now. The fans should
remember that the game has moved on and it might be a while before Liverpool win
the league regularly again. We're not going to win it this year, no chance, but
we've won trophies and at any other club, Arsenal and United aside, that would
constitute success.
"Managers are never appreciated when they're in the job. Roy Evans used to
get no end of stick, but now people talk about how the football the team played
back then was great. You'd have to say that the gaffer has achieved more, so
what are they going to be saying about Gerard Houllier when the next fella comes
in?
"He is the man to take this club forward. He's laid the foundations here
and he's brought quality in. There was competition out there for Harry Kewell,
but we got him. One of the reasons has to be the manager. It looks like we're
getting Djibril Cisse in the summer; would he come to Liverpool if Gerard wasn't
the manager? People have to remember the past's the past. It's gone."
He must be a good manager if his players like him as much as this suggests.
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