Carra: Spit shame will haunt me until I die

Footie ace on his ‘massive mistake’

JAMIE Carragher has told of his ongoing torment over the “massive mistake” of his spitting shame.

The footie pundit was filmed gobbing angrily from his car window at another motorist who heckled him about Manchester United having just beaten his former club Liverpool.

His spit hit the face of the man’s 14-year-old daughter, who was in his passenger seat, in March last year.

Carragher, 41, apologised to the man and to the public repeatedly in the aftermath. But he has now admitted: “It will probably haunt me the rest of my life.”

He said: “I’m not someone who is permanently trying to blame someone else, I made a massive mistake.

“A guy was trying to get a funny video of me and it’s not the first time and it won’t be the last. I’ve never reacted

APOLOGIES Carragher like that before. I just snapped, can’t explain why, if I could take that back. “It’s probably taken me six to 12 months to get over it in some ways. “The thing that absolutely kills me is the bit about his daughter and this thing that I spat at a girl, it just kills me.” Carragher also revealed he decided against a management career after seeing what it did to Reds bosses Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez. Speaking to former Labour spin-doctor Alastair Campbell in podcast Football, Feminism and Everything In Between, he said: “The job had killed them, it had broken them. They were different men, paranoid at the end, doing strange decisions. “They’re just not the same person and I think it’s what the job does to them. Football can take you places but it can also take you to dark places.” SHOCK Our story on the incident