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Jamie Carragher aims cheeky Rio Ferdinand dig after Gary Neville questions Liverpool record

-Credit: (Image: Getty/Sky Bet)
-Credit: (Image: Getty/Sky Bet)


Jamie Carragher aimed a sneaky dig at Rio Ferdinand as he defended his own-goals record after being questioned about it by Gary Neville. The former Liverpool center-back scored seven own-goals in the Premier League, with only Richard Dunne (10) having put through his own net more times.

Carragher, who scored two own-goals in one game against Neville's Manchester United in 1999, was asked by his fellow Sky Sports pundit on the latest episode of the Stick to Football podcast (brought to you by Sky Bet) just why he scored so many own-goals during his career, and responded by digging Ferdinand out.

Ferdinand is one of 12 players to have scored five own-goals in the Premier League, and Carragher said: "The greatest ball-playing center-half of our generation, Rio Ferdinand, scored five. I only got two more. Can we get that out there.

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"And I played a lot more games than Rio as well! I would do anything to stop the ball. Sometimes you have to let the ball go. It doesn't bother me when people laugh or take the p***.

"In Istanbul, I did the same and the ball went past the post and we won the European Cup. I could have let the ball go throughout my career but I didn't in the biggest game. If that means I have to put up with a bit of f****** stick, so be it!"

Carragher and Ferdinand have clashed in the past with the former Liverpool defender recently criticizing Casemiro's performances. Ferdinand stuck up for the Manchester United man and pointed at his medal tally at Real Madrid.

"I heard Jamie Carragher say "leave the football before the football leaves you" and I just think that's highly disrespectful," Ferdinand said.

'I just think it's really disrespectful because especially given what my man's [Casemiro] won, there's more to it than he's just made a couple of mistakes."