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Published 11:45 9 May 2023 BST
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"Mentioning Celtic and Leicester, I always had a huge fear coming up against your teams", said Carragher
"And fear in that, you had a great knack of getting results, it felt, at that time. Certainly, with Leicester in the Liverpool team I played in. A lot of times you'd come to Anfield and got decent results. "I remember Celtic beat us in the UEFA Cup – I think that might have been the season you got to the Final."
O'Neill replied: "Absolutely, we had drawn the first game at Celtic 1-1 and it meant we had to score in the game (at Anfield). Alan Thompson scores for us just before half time and John Hartson scores a screamer.
"We won 2-0. It was a big result for us to take us into the semi-final but also a big result for Scottish football as well. We were always compared unfavourably with the Engllsh Premier League and Liverpool, as your side were riding so high. This was a big, big result." Inevitably, whenever managers left Liverpool and a vacancy opened up, O'Neill was often at the heart of the speculation surrounding the role. https://twitter.com/SkySportsPL/status/1655699346145550337 There had been several occasions when the two-time European Cup winner had been heavily linked with the job at Anfield, and these rumours obviously found its way to Carragher. "Can I ask you a question? You may not remember but at that stage when you knocked us out of the competition, you were linked heavily, for about six-12 months, with the Liverpool job when I was a player, were you ever in the running?" However, O'Neill put the myth to bed by adding: "No, it didn't materialise or it didn't happen. But I was extremely happy at Celtic at the time and it would have taken a lot for me to move away." Related links:Live sport on TV in Ireland this weekend – Football, GAA, Rugby – April 24th to 26th
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