| Jamie Carragher is one of the most charismatic footballers of his generation. Adored by the fans, he was recently voted the most popular player in the entire Liverpool squad. Yet the young Carra came to Liverpool as an Everton fan, from an Everton family and with Everton friends. Packed with great anecdotes, controversial opinions and large helpings of his trademark humour, this is his story...
Born in January 1978 in Bootle, Merseyside, Carragher signed professional terms with Liverpool in 1996, having served a successful apprenticeship, won the FA Youth Cup and played for England Under-21s. He scored a goal in his first full league game for the senior team - pretty good for a defender and very unusual for him - and his versatility was to ensure a permanent place in the starting line up before long and he is now vice-captain. In fact he is so integral to the Liverpool squad, the Kop chants 'we all dream of a team of Carraghers' to the tune of 'Yellow Submarine'.
Raw, funny and down-to-earth, his book is an antidote to the anodyne sports autobiography. It takes you behind the scenes of all of Liverpool and England's greatest triumphs and disasters in the company of a player who never fails to be intelligent, controversial or just downright hilarious.
One of the few current footballers worth an autobiography
Jonathan Ruppin The Bookseller
Startlingly forthright... his memoirs are a perfect gauge of his intelligence
Paul Hayward The Guardian
Unflinchingly honest
Zoo
Notable for its honesty. The Liverpool defender's published opinion that he is happier retired from international football prompted a media frenzy
Martin Pengelly The Guardian
The journey to upstanding professional and all-round good guy is colourfully chronicled in Carra, My Autobiography… Some footballers are experts on the price of Bentleys.The Liverpool stopper knows the name of Real Betis left back and, probably, whether he is any good on the overlap
Matt Dickinson Times
His autobiography drips with enthusiasm for the game… Carra is always forthright, frequently funny and resolutely down to earth
Nick Churchill Bournemouth Echo
Top man, top memoirs... At last, an autobiography of Premier League standard... Many recent Premier League autobiographies have been pretty lame affairs, veering from the tedious (Michael Owen) to the defensive (Rio Ferdinand) via the utterly deluded (Ashley Cole). Hallelujah, then, for Jamie Carragher. The Liverpool defender is that rarest of things: a self-aware footballer with a genuine insight into the game he’s playing, the nous to explain it clearly, and the honesty to say what he thinks… Carragher has clearly been itching to write this amusing, anecdote-packed biog, and he’s never short of an opinion… it’s this frankness that makes Carra compelling reading… Essential reading for Kopites, it should also be issued to any cynic who believes that footballers don’t care as much about our game as the fans
FourFourTwo
Carragher’s memoirs are every bit as forthright and single-minded as you would expect… Football fans have long since grown tired of reading players’ autobiographies that have been watered down by club press officers or self censored by the player themselves and such books are literally not worth the paper they are written on. Carragher’s clearly doesn’t fall into this category and in actual fact it is a fantastic record of the career of a genuine Liverpool legend which is so well written it can be enjoyed by football fans no matter what their hue… Carra: My Autobiography is an outstanding piece of work which is befitting of an individual who is not afraid of expressing his own opinions
Tony Barrett Liverpool Echo
Carragher never gives anything but his all, ensuring that fans of every colour secretly agree with the Kop's ditty. Carra's uncomplicated persona is reflected in his playing style; this fine autobiography strengthens the belief that he is a football fan doing something he adores while enjoying the recognition of those he admires most.
Peter Sharkey Yorkshire Evening Post
As honest and entertaining a book by a still-playing professional since Roy Keane's. Carragher is as direct here as he is in the tackle and by the end, there isn't a football fan alive who won't have warmed to him. He spares nobody – least of all himself and his family – and tells you all the stories you suspect are the norm behind the scenes of the Premier League. Cracking stuff.
Malachy Clerkin The Sunday Tribune
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