Why Jamie Carragher was not at Liverpool's Premier League title party at Anfield
Jamie Carragher missed out on the celebrations at Anfield as Liverpool secured the Premier League title with a resounding 5-1 victory over Tottenham. The Reds came from behind to clinch the win, thanks to goals from Luis Diaz, Alexis Mac Allister, Cody Gakpo, Mohamed Salah, and an own goal from Destiny Udogie, after Dominic Solanke's early opener for Spurs.
While Liverpool legends like Ian Rush and Kenny Dalglish were in attendance to witness the club's 20th league title, Carragher was elsewhere, supporting his wife Nicola at the London Marathon. Nicola completed the race, marking her sixth World Marathon Major finish, having previously run in Tokyo, New York, Boston, Berlin, and Chicago.
Carragher took to Instagram to express his pride, saying: "Wonder Woman @nicolacarragher finished her marathon challenge of the six @wmmajors in seven months!
"Very very proud husband, can't even begin to know how her body must feel today but she'll get herself in shape for the next one in Sydney in August Well done my little pocket rocket."
Although absent from Anfield, Carragher shared his thoughts on Liverpool's title win in a column for the Telegraph, highlighting the significance of Arne Slot's achievement in his first season. "In winning the Premier League at his first attempt, Arne Slot has scored one of the most celebrated equalisers in Anfield history; Liverpool can proudly call themselves record title-winners again," Carragher wrote.
"True, it is an honour they must temporarily share with Manchester United, the giants of English football tied at 20-20. But there is massive symbolic importance in Slot wiping out the advantage, which owed everything to the genius of Sir Alex Ferguson.", reports the Mirror.
"Slot's instant success ends any debate about England's most successful club. When you add Anfield's six European Cups to the league tally, the last counter-argument they were clinging to at Old Trafford has been obliterated."
Manchester United legend Gary Neville has conceded that Liverpool are now the most successful English club in history. Speaking to Sky Sports, he said: "It's a massive deal. When you think of the importance of a league title and the great managers Liverpool have had: Shankley, Paisley, Kenny Dalglish, Joe Fagan.
"And then obviously at United as well, talking about the importance of your bread and butter being the league title. The accolade of the most successful club, you could debate it maybe when United were on 20 titles because obviously Liverpool have more European Cups.
"But once Liverpool get level, the painful thing to say is that unfortunately the debate is over for a period until Manchester United become successful again and win leagues. It should cause real tremors over at Old Trafford.
"The idea that Liverpool - which is obviously a great football club - will be the most successful club in English football after today, that really should cause heartache and pain, because it took a lot to get ahead of Liverpool. They were miles ahead when Alex Ferguson took over."
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