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Liverpool great Jamie Carragher, the only manager he has witnessed "lose" the Anfield locker room is

Carragher played for six different permanent managers

By Sergio Moya

Carragher played for six different permanent managers

Throughout his 17-year career with the Liverpool first team, Carragher played for six different permanent managers. The Scouser, though, claimed that Hodgson was the first person he had ever openly to doubt in an interview with The Diary of a CEO podcast, "I probably thought Roy Hodgson had lost the dressing room when he was there," said the speaker.

I don't believe many players were having fun with him or the practise," Carragher said, he and Steven Gerrard were acting like fans as they asked, "What's he doing there? Why did he do that?" I’ I'll never forget the single occasion I ever did this in my entire career, when Roy Hodgson's team lost to Blackpool at home during a break in the international season,

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And I was awake all night because I hadn't played for England anymore, the following morning, I arrived and walked right to his office, he was really holding a coaches meeting, and since I was an extremely seasoned pro at the time roughly 33 or 34 all the coaches joined us for a lengthy talk, "I was telling him you can't do that as he was talking about what he wanted to accomplish for the upcoming game.

As a manager, I wasn't challenging him; instead, I was attempting to assist him. He required assistance as manager of Liverpool, not necessarily as a manager. It was almost as if someone were to come out and say that or play this player, they would be prohibited from doing so going forwards, I knew it was difficult, so I focused more on trying to improve the situation and him.

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Anyone who was a Liverpool supporter during this time will understand exactly what Carragher is referring to. At the club, Hodgson's tenure was a truly low point, the defeat at home to Blackpool in October may have been the lowest point of that entire period, although it was disappointing to lose to Northampton Town in the League Cup, there are always excuses for cup losses. It was unacceptable to lose at home against a side making its Premier League debut.

 

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