Jamie Carragher pleads intoxication for ever getting excited about Mario Balotelli at Liverpool

Jamie Carragher is a good pundit.

But, God love him, even he was caught by the mystique of one Mario Balotelli. £16m. He's got talent. He's a brute. This might just work. 12 months later and everyone who thought Liverpool were doing a good piece of business in recruiting the mercurial Italian have either climbed under a rock or simply denied that they were ever converted. Jamie Carragher seemingly was doubting that he was one of the posse delighted at the capture of Balotelli this morning but he was soon caught out. It started with a comparison of his two takes on the transfer exactly a year after it took place. https://twitter.com/Footy_Jokes/status/636129273309302784 But Carra wasn't so sure that a man who speaks such sense on Sky Sports could've been guilty of committing such a crime. Not sober anyway. https://twitter.com/Carra23/status/636134342532710400 Good, old Deluded Brendan to the rescue though. Straight in with a copy of Carragher's Mail Online column. https://twitter.com/DeludedBrendan/status/636134426099994625 But there's a simple explanation. https://twitter.com/Carra23/status/636135839190396928