Back in the days when Jamie Carragher was transitioning from footballer to pundit, he was given some advice from another sportsman in that space that he perhaps hasn’t forgotten.
‘I told him he had to forget about friends in the game and in the dressing room,’ says that TV pundit today. ‘My message was pretty clear. You are an analyst now and you have to say what you see and feel. If you don’t, then you are just fake.’