Jamie Carragher, the reds' current longest serving player, is set to move up one place for the number of League games played for the club into our all-time top fifteen, assuming he turns out against Middlesbrough at Anfield on Saturday.
This will be his 362nd Premiership game for Liverpool - 58 outings ahead of his nearest current challengers, his central defensive partner Sami Hyypiä and skipper Steven Gerrard. He has bagged just three goals in these League matches.
Jamie signed on as a pro in September 1996, and is currently contracted with the club until 2009. He made his League bow as a substitute in our goalless home draw with West Ham United in January 1997, having remained on the bench on four other occasions earlier that season. He played in just one more League game during that campaign, when he netted against Aston Villa in his first start.
After twenty League outings in 1997/98, he established himself as a regular, missing just eighteen League fixtures in the next five seasons. However, his 2003/04 was affected by a broken leg at Blackburn Rovers in September, and he could only turn out 22 times in the League.
He was an ever-present in the Premiership for the first time in 2004/05, and has since missed just eight League matches, with Rafael Benítez rarely rotating him out of the team.
Carra's 362nd League game will draw him level with Ronnie Whelan in fifteenth place in the club's all-time League appearance ranking. It will take a further 68 Premiership games before the thirty-year old Bootle lad can break into the club's all-time Top 10 League appearance holders, and he would then still be more than 200 League games behind Ian Callaghan, who is likely to forever remain the Liverpool player who tops the appearance charts.
Some achievement in this day and age
If we use him right he will get another couple of hundred.
This will be his 362nd Premiership game for Liverpool - 58 outings ahead of his nearest current challengers, his central defensive partner Sami Hyypiä and skipper Steven Gerrard. He has bagged just three goals in these League matches.
Jamie signed on as a pro in September 1996, and is currently contracted with the club until 2009. He made his League bow as a substitute in our goalless home draw with West Ham United in January 1997, having remained on the bench on four other occasions earlier that season. He played in just one more League game during that campaign, when he netted against Aston Villa in his first start.
After twenty League outings in 1997/98, he established himself as a regular, missing just eighteen League fixtures in the next five seasons. However, his 2003/04 was affected by a broken leg at Blackburn Rovers in September, and he could only turn out 22 times in the League.
He was an ever-present in the Premiership for the first time in 2004/05, and has since missed just eight League matches, with Rafael Benítez rarely rotating him out of the team.
Carra's 362nd League game will draw him level with Ronnie Whelan in fifteenth place in the club's all-time League appearance ranking. It will take a further 68 Premiership games before the thirty-year old Bootle lad can break into the club's all-time Top 10 League appearance holders, and he would then still be more than 200 League games behind Ian Callaghan, who is likely to forever remain the Liverpool player who tops the appearance charts.
Some achievement in this day and age
If we use him right he will get another couple of hundred.
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