Jamie Carragher

He was a brilliant coach and a brilliant sort of teacher.

And a lot of the stuff I talk about defensively is when we do Monday Night Football shows.

Now, a lot of that still comes from Rafa and the education we got there for six years.

Well, to be fair, I think when you...

For Liverpool, it's very difficult.

They've got such great history.

I think anyone who's won a league title may go above Rafa in that situation, really.

Think of Joe Fagan and Bill Shankly underneath them.

They'd obviously be right near the top.

But in terms of the managers who all just missed out on the league title, you'd have to put them top of that list in some ways.

I mean, with the Champions League and the team he created, we went through a league season.

I know a lot's made of Liverpool last season, and rightly so, losing one game.

and not winning the league, which is unbelievable.

But we had a season where we only lost two, and never won the league to, you know, Gary's United-type team.

And I think the difference that stopped Rafa winning the league was Ronaldo, to be honest.

I think both teams were really matched really well, but they just had, you know, the best player probably in the world at that time, or just behind Messi.

And that was the difference, really, and that was, you know, that was tough for our team.

You buy it's what the opposition is, and you're coming up against that great Manchester United team, Alex Ferguson, one of the greatest managers there,

of all time as well.

So it wasn't easy.