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Reina reveals furious Carragher clash
Topic Started: Oct 11 2011, 10:30 AM (588 Views)
Nokia
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Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina has revealed an explosive row he had with defensive stalwart Jamie Carragher, which spilled over into the dressing room after beginning on the pitch.

Reina and Carragher, both mainstays of the Liverpool rearguard since the Spanish shot-stopper joined the Reds in 2005, clashed in an unnamed game because of a disagreement about passing options.

"The veins in our necks were bulging, our faces were red with anger and neither of us were going to back down," Reina said in his autobiography Pepe, which is being serialised in the Daily Mirror. "The row between me and Jamie Carragher started during the game - I can't even remember who we were playing against - carried on in the dressing room and didn't come to an end until we sent each other text messages apologising.

"He went crazy at me, screaming at me, and I was screaming back at him. We were like that for fully five minutes shouting at one another and getting our point across. When we got back into the dressing room the row started again and it was even rougher than it had been on the pitch.

"The other players were just totally silent, watching us giving each other hell. It wasn't even over anything major. It was just a difference of opinion over whether I should knock the ball long or [if] he should give me an angle for a short pass.

"I ended up kicking the ball out wide to where I thought Carra should be, but he wasn't there and it went out of play. He shouted at me: 'You really think you're Franz Beckenbauer and you're always trying to play short passes when you should just empty it.'

"I responded: 'If I know one thing it's that you definitely aren't Beckenbauer, but just give me a bit of support when I've got the ball so we can try and play instead of just kicking it down the pitch.'"

Meanwhile, Reina has lifted the lid on an occasion when he was at loggerheads with former Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez over alcohol consumption. "The biggest argument I had with Rafa was about a beer," Reina said. "We had lost 2-1 to Besiktas and not played too well. I decided to have a beer. I don't see a problem with that because for me it is healthier to do that than it is to have a glass of Coca-Cola or a drink like that.

"Suddenly, the bartender turned up and said: 'The club doctor, medical staff and manager have made it clear to me they do not want you to have a beer.' I still don't know why this was the case but whatever the reason, I was fuming. I grabbed my bags and stormed off to my room without even having dinner. That is how upset I was.

"For me, Rafa was in the wrong. It suggests the manager does not trust you to look after yourself in the right way. He saw it differently and, if he has a small weakness as a manager, it is that he did not have a massive career as a player before he moved into management."
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mcfc1975
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reaina seems like a wrong unn to me

a right trouble causer

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#prayforuwe
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GmenSaysWengerOut
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what makes you say that?
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mcfc1975
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Oct 11 2011, 12:07 PM
what makes you say that?
moaning at someone because he played a pass without looking and then carrying it on

having a strop because his manager said he cant have a beer

you should do as your manager says, fine him 2 weeks weages andf let him rot in the reserves :thumb:
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ZeeZoo
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Lol, surely he must have looked up before passing. What a retard.
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i think people are totally missing the point here, the point is he wanted to try play football via retaining the ball rather than aimlessly hoofing the ball up the field, which was a huge issue for liverpool the last few years. I think he has ever right to put that point across to Carragher who lets be honest is more than happy to just hoof the ball out and thats his job done.
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Oct 11 2011, 01:33 PM
i think people are totally missing the point here, the point is he wanted to try play football via retaining the ball rather than aimlessly hoofing the ball up the field, which was a huge issue for liverpool the last few years. I think he has ever right to put that point across to Carragher who lets be honest is more than happy to just hoof the ball out and thats his job done.
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Reina is constantly getting at the defense for being too deep or playing it long. Good on him I say. Carraghers a twat.
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Oct 11 2011, 01:33 PM
i think people are totally missing the point here, the point is he wanted to try play football via retaining the ball rather than aimlessly hoofing the ball up the field, which was a huge issue for liverpool the last few years. I think he has ever right to put that point across to Carragher who lets be honest is more than happy to just hoof the ball out and thats his job done.
That's quite obviously the point, I was merely pointing out that he was in the wrong to pass a ball "expecting" a defender to be on the receiving end.
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i did not quote you directly buddy
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ZeeZoo
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You said "people" when only 2 others, myself included, posted before that comment. But yeah, forget it.
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you are an awful man
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Oct 11 2011, 04:48 PM
you are an awful man
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mcfc1975
Oct 11 2011, 10:50 AM
reaina seems like a wrong unn to me

a right trouble causer

he's a keeper
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Reina on Rafa

"When Rafa left Liverpool at the end of the 2009-10 season, I knew that it was the right time for him to go.

"It hurts me to say that, but the wheels had come off by then and there was no guarantee that he was going to be able to put them back on.

"I know that I will be for ever in his debt for what he has done for my football career, and it is never nice when a manager leaves or loses his job, but there are times when, for whatever reason, the methods that have been bringing a manager so much success just stop working.

"When this happens, the club has to make a decision about whether you will be able to get back to winning ways again, or if it is time to look for a new manager who might be able to freshen things up, just by having a different approach.

"Liverpool wanted to go down the latter route and it was probably the right decision.

"I was upset, obviously, because it is always sad when a manager loses his job, but even more so when he has been as important to your career as Rafa has been to mine.

"But I also thought half of the dressing room was not happy and so, probably, for the club if not for me personally, it was the best outcome for everyone.

"I first began to realise we were in trouble when we played against Espanyol in a pre-season friendly at the start of August 2009.

"They beat us 3-0 and could have scored more. When I came off the pitch there was a part of me that thought, 'If we carry on like this, we are going to get relegated.'
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Nah its definitely all Hodgson's fault, nothing to do with Benitez. :fishing:
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