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Published 12:13 14 Oct 2016 BST
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If the selection of Torres and Owen up top is mere coincidence, we doubt Neville's decision to play Carragher at left back is.
Far more likely is that Neville was harking back to the time that Carragher, a centre-back by trade, took the mick out of full backs.
"There's only two things for a full back. You're either a failed winger or a failed centre-back," Carragher said during a Monday Night Football broadcast in 2013.
"Nobody wants to be a full back as a kid. Nobody wants to be a Gary Neville."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3BXhdbkbXY
So when he had free reign to assign Carragher any position he wanted, it seems only fitting that Neville would pop him in at full back.
We just can't wait until they go up against each other on Monday night, when Liverpool host Manchester United. And with Ryan Giggs along for the ride, Carragher had best bring his A-game.
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