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Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

Off Script: Carra on why management wasn’t for him

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports News, Sports, News, Soccer

4.0760 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In a special edition of Off Script, Jamie Carragher explains how the same fear of failure that underpinned his success as a player influenced his decision not to try his hand at management – and why that was for the best.

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0:00.0

Well, Kara, this is a miracle of technology that you and I have managed to actually get this work in.

0:07.0

Part of my hopes there's an outtakes of the last two hours of trying to get...

0:12.0

Are you like me? Is this not your forte?

0:15.0

This is not my forte, neither is patient, so trying to get to the bottom of this and sort this out.

0:20.0

It is not, as I say, my forte. But we've got there in the end with the help of my daughter. Something's broke, but this, is it, what is it? This thing, skylight or something I've got here on my left. So, it's really expensive equipment. Yeah. So basically, what we're saying is your daughter, I'm not paying.

1:11.6

Yeah, your daughter to me, my son Jack, have sorted it. So the oldies have got no chance, don't they? Yes. I was thinking, actually, in terms of the situation that everybody's in at the moment, coronavirus-wise, look, we all appreciate what good lives we've got. but you've got a wife who's a fantastic singer, a daughter who's an entertainer and a great piano player, and a son that you can nip in the back garden and have a game of footy with. So compared to most, that's not bad your lockdown, is it? Yeah, we haven't been too bad. Obviously, we're lucky. You're a nice garden in the back.

1:29.6

I'm sure you can see it. This is the only position I could charge me phone and do everything that I needed to do. So I'm not trying to get the gardening. But yeah, listen, we're very fortunate, you know. I can imagine how tougher has been for so many families as well. And as I said, we're fortunate had a nice family time together you don't have it too often now and I think all of us now are so busy at different times so it is nice to almost have a

1:35.1

reset if you like with your family and make sure that they try and use this time as well as they

1:42.7

possibly can be it's a difficult time for everyone at this moment we're quite forth. She hasn't really affected us. So as I said trying to use the time as good as we can. Well, I used some of my time yesterday to catch up with your buddy Genev. And I felt the nation could do with a bit of a bit of humor, a bit of light-heartedness.

2:03.6

I thought the best thing to do to cheer everybody up was to ask him about his time at Valencia.

2:08.6

Because I know that always makes you chuckle.

2:11.6

But actually, I mean, you'll be going up later today, you'll be able to see it really, really interesting, brutally honest, talked about the mistakes he made. He said, I should never have taken the job. He said, if I'm brutally honest, I took the job because of my own ego, think I could just walk into it. And it was just a litany of mistake the way we, and he was saying things that, again again you know him as well as I do saying

2:34.8

things like I wasn't direct enough I didn't wasn't decisive indecision it was a complete

2:40.4

personality change and he said he would never ever become a manager again so it got

2:45.9

me thinking I know it's a question that you've been asked before and I don't know if

2:50.8

it's something that you you've been asked before, and I don't know if it's something

2:51.3

that you regularly visit in your mind,

2:55.0

but even not asking will you or when you,

2:58.0

but when you think about the possibility of yourself

3:02.2

becoming a manager or a coach,

3:05.3

what do you think of?

3:06.2

What's your first thoughts? My first thoughts when I'm

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