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Jamie Carragher admits his spitting incident in 2018 'knocked me for six months' after being suspended as a pundit by Sky Sports, with the Liverpool legend revealing he saw a psychologist to help him deal with the episode.
The former defender had been returning from Old Trafford after his beloved Reds were beaten 2-1 by Manchester United in March of that year when he was goaded by a rival fan in a nearby car. Carragher then spat towards the man and his daughter, who had their window wound down.
There were widespread calls for Carragher to be sacked after his spit hit the 14-year-old girl, but he left his role at Sky briefly before returning six months later having reached out to the two involved to apologise.
He said he 'wasn't himself' during his period out of work and ended up visiting former England psychologist Steve Peters.
'Coming home from Old Trafford and then when I lost my job at Sky - I'm someone who's quite on the front foot, if someone attacks me,' he told Gary Neville on his YouTube show The Overlap.
'But that knocked me for six months. For a good six months I wasn't myself. I'd get up in the morning and just have that pain in my stomach, oh that did happen.
Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher has looked back on his infamous spitting episode in 2018
He told fellow pundit Gary Neville it 'knocked him for six months' while suspended by Sky
The Liverpool icon was caught on camera spitting at a man after being taunted while driving
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