Jamie Carragher's opinions should be applauded, not sneered at
IN Tuesday's Guardian, a columnist by the name of Michael Henderson took Jamie Carragher and the entire city of Liverpool to task over the Reds defender's revelation that he couldn't help but put club before country.
Henderson wrote: "And Jamie Carragher revealed, through the conduit of his memoirs, that playing for England meant less to him than representing Liverpool.
"That's not a hanging offence. It merely confirms the impression that many of his countrymen have about the city of Liverpool, and the people who come out of this year's provincial capital of culture."
And what would that impression be, Michael? That the people of Liverpool are intelligent and urbane enough to see the English national team for exactly what it is - London FC?
Or that they see little point in allying themselves with the pond life who masquerade as football fans, only to give the game away with jingoistic chants about the World Wars and IRA?
It may just be a coincidence but a Google search for Michael Henderson reveals his birthplace to be Manchester.
That's not a hanging offence, either - well not yet, anyway - but it does, perhaps, suggest that this particular Guardian columnist is not without bias when it comes to writing about "provincial" Liverpool.
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