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Jamie Carragher makes England confession after Harry Kane call out – 'Not my no.1'
Jamie Carragher has reiterated that England was not his priority during his playing days. Carragher's comments come after Harry Kane criticised those who dropped out of the national team's recent double-header in the Nations League.
The Three Lions captain sparked headlines by declaring that he "didn't like" the fact nine players had withdrawn from Lee Carsley's original 23-man squad. Despite Carragher admiring the England captain for speaking out, the former Liverpool star claimed, as he has done throughout the years, that playing for his country was not "the number one" for him.
Reds' right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold, Chelsea pair Levi Colwill and Cole Palmer, Manchester City duo Phil Foden and Jack Grealish, Southampton goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale, Everton's Jarrad Branthwaite as well as Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka of Arsenal all pulled out of the squad.
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While Kane took part in England's victories over Greece and the Republic of Ireland he was unhappy with those that withdrew from the national set-up. Speaking to ITV he said: “I think England comes before anything. It comes before club and it is the most important thing you play as a professional footballer.
"It’s a shame this week obviously. Yeah, I think it’s a tough period of the season and maybe that’s been taken advantage of a little bit. I don’t really like it if I’m totally honest. I think as I just said there England comes before before anything, any club situation."
Speaking on Kane's comments, Carragher insisted he understood the Bayern Munich man's frustrations. However, despite making 38 appearances for the Three Lions across a European Championship and two World Cups, he conceded that England felt more of a concern for those in the South of the country.
"I actually admired the fact that he said it, because it's not something I normally associate with Harry Kane, saying something that maybe creates headlines or is a bit confrontational to other people so I actually admired it in some ways," Carragher said on the It's Called Soccer! podcast.
"I do actually think he's right in that some of those players did miss this trip, and could have made it, I do believe that and I said this to Gary [Neville], a week or so ago, that, we always expect this in March, when the title's up for grabs, maybe someone is in the semi final or quarter final of the Champions League - you expect that and I think we all know that, but at this stage of the season.
"I do think that the fact it wasn't Thomas Tuchel in charge, it was Lee Carsley and it was Nations League games, I think clubs have put pressure on players to miss out on the games so I actually think he's right in what he's saying.
"For me England wasn't the number one, for me as a player that wasn't, for someone like Harry Kane, I always feel players who live down south or from London, England always felt like the ultimate, so for him I get it, for me it wasn't."
This is not the first time Carragher has been resolute in his belief that his club took precedence over country. In his 2008 autobiography, he said: "I wasn't uncaring or indifferent. I simply didn't put England's fortunes at the top of my priority list."
