Friday, 22nd September 2006
Jamie Carragher, the reds’ current longest serving player, is set to enter the club’s all-time Top 20 for number of games played, assuming he turns out against Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield on Saturday. This will be his 425th game for Liverpool - nearly fifty outings ahead of his nearest current challenger, his central defensive partner Sami Hyypiä.
Jamie signed on as a pro in September 1996, and is currently contracted with the club until 2009. His 424 games to date include 294 in the Premiership, 24 in the FA Cup, 22 in the League Cup, eighty in European competition and two each in the World Club Championship and FA Charity Shield. In all that time he has bagged just three goals.
Carra’s 425th game will draw him level with Ian St. John in twentieth place in the club’s all-time appearance ranking. The Saint joined from Motherwell in May 1961 for a then club record fee of £37,500. He scored 118 goals in those 425 games for the reds, including the winning goal in the 1965 FA Cup Final and also helped us to win two First Division titles and the Second Division once.
It will take a further 110 reds games before the 28-year old Bootle lad can break into the club’s all-time Top 10 appearance holders, and he would then still be more than 300 games behind Ian Callaghan, who is likely to forever remain the Liverpool player who tops the appearance charts.
pure legend.
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