Rio Ferdinand and Piers Morgan have ruffled feathers with their responses to Cristiano Ronaldo’s row with Jorge Jesus and Jamie Carragher is now fully involved in the argument
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Jamie Carragher has been involved in an angry exchange with Piers Morgam(Image: Getty Images)
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Jamie Carragher has slammed Piers Morgan as an 'absolute phoney' as the row between the two erupts to new levels. The pair have been involved in a particularly angry back-and-forth over recent days regarding Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal walkout.
Morgan had publicly backed the former Manchester United star, as well as Ronaldo’s former teammate Rio Ferdinand. But those actions haven’t gone down particularly well with Carragher.
Speaking on The Overlap Daily, he said: “People think it’s good to be close to people in the game, but this is where it becomes a problem.
“People like Piers Morgan and Rio Ferdinand, who are big people in the media whether you like them or not, are embarrassing themselves with the nonsense that they’re coming out with because they know Ronaldo. You can know someone and try to look after them, but you cannot defend the indefensible.”
Broadcaster Morgan has now fired back on social media. He wrote: “So, @Carra23 dislikes me (and @rioferdy5) sticking up for our friend @Cristiano, or as he puts it ‘defending the indefensible.’ Here is the same Jamie Carragher supporting his friend Luis Suarez after he racially abused Patrice Evra."
He added: “But when it comes to ‘defending the indefensible’, I do admit I have sometimes done that @Carra23.” Morgan then pointed to one of his tweets in 2018 which read: “Jamie Carragher was stupid to spit at that car, but no more stupid than the father was to be filming Carragher as he drove his daughter. So I hope @Carra23 keeps his job.
“He’s a great pundit, has apologised profusely for what he did - and his victim behaved badly too.”
Carragher wasted no time in replying as he said: “We as a team did support our teammate and we were wrong. I apologised to Patrice on tv years ago, which then prompted Liverpool to send him a letter also apologising which was the right thing to do.
“Your reaction to my slight criticism saying you & Rio are in bed with Ronaldo so it clouds your judgement when speaking about him is embarrassing. You batter people every day, when it’s the other way you storm out of a tv studio or get personal. All to get another interview you sycophant.”
On Carragher's spitting incident, the Liverpool icon added: "Yes I remember, I contacted you to say I appreciated your support, you then tried to get me on your tv show to talk about it, so my appreciation waned a bit as I knew it wasn’t as sincere as I first thought.
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Cristiano Ronaldo's conduct with the Portugal national team sparked the row(Image: Getty Images)
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"It was all about an interview, as is your possessive fawning over Ronaldo & Trump. I also wouldn’t be getting personal with your history or the other two you’re defending, now that would be defending the indefensible."
In the meantime, he also shared an image of one of Morgan's newspaper columns where he slammed Ronaldo as a 'spoilt brat'. Alongside that, Carragher wrote: "What an absolute phoney you are."
Morgan ended up having the final word as he shared a selfie of the pair and wrote: “Mate, I even did a fan selfie for you recently to boost your profile…show a little gratitude!”