Gary Neville insists 'treacherous' Jamie Carragher would beat Traitors after hearing Manchester United story
Jamie Carragher has revealed that he trained with Manchester United as a youngster before becoming a Liverpool legend.
the first red The defender played 737 games for the club and spent his entire career at Anfield.
However, it could have aligned itself with its bitter rivals if Carragher He made a different decision during his days at the academy.
Having grown up a Everton A fanatic, he joined local rivals Liverpool as a youngster in 1988 before winning the FA Youth Cup as a teenager.
Carragher has now admitted, however, that he had a brief stint in United before his appearance as a Reds hero.
His revelation even stunned one Gary Neville tipping his fellow expert for success on reality television.
Carragher revealed how close he came to heading to Old Trafford in the latest episode of Overlap on tour.
During a trip to Europe, Carragher recalled: “I went to Man United for a while. Have I never told you that?
“There was a Sunday team playing against a Man United team, but they weren't Manchester boys.
“Lads came together from all over the country and I played for a Sunday team. They asked me to play because they were playing against Man United.
“They weren't normally my team, it was to make them a little bit stronger. So I played in this match and I did pretty well.”
Carragher's performance was enough to impress World Cup winner Nobby Stiles, who was coach of United's youth team at the time.
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The former England hero approached the young defender's father, who saw an opportunity to prove something to Liverpool.
He continued: “Nobby Stiles ran this team and he pushes my dad after him.
“So it was just before I signed schoolboy forms for Liverpool. So my father wanted to make Liverpool believe that it wasn't easy to sign me.
“I ended up going to a Man United thing, Littleton Road. We stayed on Friday, Saturday night and played on Sunday.
“And again I say Man United were ahead of the game, all the lads that were there this weekend, when we went to Littleton for trials, they were all the same lads.”
However, it turned out there was never any chance of the Reds hero swapping Merseyside for Manchester.
Asked about Roy Keane Had he joined the Red Devils, Carragher added: “I never went, I don't know, I just went there. My dad just used it as something to (put pressure on Liverpool).”
Meanwhile, Gary Neville He was stunned when he exclaimed, “You kept it quiet, didn't you?
“So you were willing to play for Man United. You're a backstabbing traitor. You should be on that show, Traitors. You'd win that.”
Instead of joining United, Carragher spent his entire career at Liverpool.
He scored four goals from defense and won 11 trophies, including the Champions League and two FA Cups.
When he retired aged 35 in 2013, Carragher was the club's second most-capped player of all time behind Ian Callaghan.
