FOOTIE PUNDIT JAMIE SPITS AT TEENAGE GIRL
Sky Sports analyst says sorry after post-match car clash with fans
JAMIE Carragher last night apologised to a teenage girl he was pictured spitting at – after her mum branded him “disgusting”.
The Liverpool legend was caught on camera gobbing at the passenger window of a car containing the 14-year-old Manchester United fan and her dad after Saturday’s victory over the Anfield outfit.
She claimed spit hit her on the forehead, making her cry.
The dad told how he had been having “a bit of banter” with Carragher which turned ugly after he mentioned the 2-1 scoreline. He insisted the TV star must have seen his daughter was in the passenger seat.
Carragher, who had been working for Sky Sports at the match, rang the girl and her father last night and said: “I just want to apologise and I hope you are OK.”
The youngster told him: “OK, thanks for apologising.”
Carragher claimed he lost the plot after the ribbing went on too long. The 40-year-old said: “I would like to apologise for my actions, which were totally out of character.
“I was continually goaded and verbally abused numerous times while being filmed in slowmoving traffic and reacted in a way that is, of course, regretful.
“What I did was wrong and I have since personally apologised to the family involved.”
In footage of the incident shot by the girl’s dad, she can be heard saying: “He spat on me.” He asks her: “Where did it hit you?” She replies: “On my face.”
The girl’s 38-year-old mum was furious at dad-of-two Carragher for spitting at a child.
She said: “I was extremely angry and disappointed that he could even bring himself to do something like that. Looking at her, you know she is a child. What did she do wrong?
“Spitting at someone is the lowest of the low. It is disgusting. He could not take that little bit of banter. It was nothing. I could understand if someone was in his face, giving him abuse.”
The schoolgirl said: “I’ve never been spat at by anyone before. I thought, ‘Why has he done that?’
“I thought I had done something wrong. Someone like him, who is older, should be able to take a joke.”
Her dad denied goading Carragher. He said: “I filmed him once, there was one video.”