THIERRY HENRY and Micah Richards hid their faces in embarrassment as Jamie Carragher auditioned for a new role.
The Liverpool legend was alongside his fellow pundits for CBS Sports covering the Champions League quarter-final action.
However, after a bit of bantering, the 45-year-old and host Kate Abdo swapped places as the show returned from an ad break.
That meant that Carragher sat in the main chair, with Abdo squeezing between Henry and Richards, and led the show after an ad break.
Carragher started with: “Welcome back to London town. Like Chelsea, Lady Abdo has been a bit just… A bit… disjointed tonight,” as both he and his colleagues burst out laughing at his mistake.
“We are giving her a segment off. Jules wasn’t available at such short notice so ladies and gentlemen, and Micah, Kate is now in the, err, in the hotseat,” he continued.
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“You want me to keep reading… Welcome to the Carra Show. Delicious passes, a smorgasbord of splendid goals and invariably compelling semi-final stories.
“Lads, time for a good little natter and remember, you can feel it but don’t become it.”
“That was smooth,” declared Richards as Henry agreed that it was “very good” – despite the pair both cringing at first and covering their faces in embarrassment.
Carragher then turned the tables again on Abdo by asking for her semi-final predictions, which she produced an impressive response to herself.
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But Richards soon stopped her in her tracks by saying: “You’re doing too good now, turn it down a notch!”
After then going to reporter Mike Grella live in the studio, the anchor then challenged those in the studio on their Italian.
But they failed miserably, with Grella even declaring that Carragher had called the Milan derby wrongly the “derby where somebody is sick”.
With more laughing in the studio, Carragher, who now appeared to be getting the swing of it, almost expertly cut out to the break and after the clip was shared, fans loved it on Twitter.
One wrote: “Best current football content on Twitter please keep flooding.”
“These guys are good, funny, and engaging,” tweeted another.
A fellow fan said: “Just great content!”
Meanwhile, Carragher and Richards burst out laughing when Fikayo Tomori had earlier described Thierry Henry in glowing terms.
The CBS Sports pundits chatted to the ace, who grew up in Kent. And he had the panel in stitches with his comment after Milan’s triumph over Napoli this week.
Carragher said: “A little birdie tells me the guy who asked the question before me [Henry] is one of your biggest idols. What are your thoughts of him as a pundit as well as a player?”
Tomori replied: “As a player of course there’s not much to be said.
“Growing up, Thierry I hope you don’t mind me embarrassing you like this, but yeah I was a big fan and he was my idol. Obviously as I was getting older, I moved further back down the pitch.”
Then he cracked the former defenders in the studio up as he added: “As a pundit, he’s really funny.”
Carragher immediately jumped in, shouting: “Funny? Funny? That’s me and Micah not Thierry, he’s the analyst.”
But Tomori explained: “We were watching the video of him doing the guess who and he guessed himself twice instead of Oli [Giroud]. So yeah he’s really funny.”
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And that prompted more hilarious reactions from the ex-players and host Kate Abdo.
But Abdo did have to apologise to Tomori after blunder pair Carragher and Richards both mispronounced his name as Fuh-kaw-ree instead of Fuh-kay-ow.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
