Jamie Carragher ‘rang Matt Le Tissier to accuse him of embarrassing family’

Matt Le Tissier claims a furious Jamie Carragher phoned him up after he mentioned the Liverpool legend's spitting incident on a recent podcast.

Carragher was suspended by Sky Sports back in 2018 after being filmed spitting at a 14-year-old girl from his car, though managed to keep hold of his job – something Le Tissier took issue with when he was sacked two years later, as he claims, "for being a middle-aged white man".

Speaking to Alan Brazil and Ray Parlour on the latest episode of Pub Talk, Le Tissier said Carragher "spat bile" down the phone at him and accused him of "embarrassing" his family by bringing the incident up.

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"I mentioned [the incident] in a podcast that I did a few weeks ago, and I don't think I've told anybody this, but I got a phone call about six weeks ago from Jamie Carragher, because I dared to mention that he kept his job after spitting at a child," Le Tissier explained.

"He wasn't very happy about that so he rang me up and then spent a good 10 minutes of spitting bile down the telephone at me. He was absolutely fuming.

"He said I'd embarrassed him and his family by bringing it up. At which point I went, 'Jamie, I think the fact that you spat [at the girl] is probably more embarrassing, so you need to own what you did, and if somebody talks about, tough. Because you did it'."

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Carragher's representatives have been contacted for comment.

Le Tissier's reputation took a huge hit a few years ago when he began making controversial comments about the Covid-19 pandemic.

He accused the UK government of "overreacting" to the situation and has been a vocal opponent of mask and vaccine mandates.

He also sparked outrage earlier this year after retweeting a post on concerning the Bucha massacre, committed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, suggesting the media was lying in its coverage of the event. Following fierce backlash, he stepped down as Southampton ambassador.

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