Gary Neville may not have been on Monday Night Football this week but the Manchester United legend made sure to make his presence felt by mocking Jamie Carragher whilst watching the show.
Just half an hour into the Sky Sports broadcast, Neville took to Twitter to tease the Liverpool icon - who he usually works alongside for the weekly show - about the colour of his hair, which appeared distinctly yellow on his television. Captioning his tweet showing Carragher, the ex-United captain wrote: "What's happened to his hair? He's had a yellow rinse!"
It didn't take long for Neville to follow up his initial jibe either, tweeting the same picture of his colleague, this time alongside an image of Phoenix Nights character Frank Cartwright. His tweet had Twitter users in stitches, with fans of both football and the comedy programme recalling the late Jim Bowen 's role.
The former Reds defender and Neville are no strangers to friendly banter surrounding Monday Night Football, a show which the pair of pundits have been staples of since Sky won back rights to show Premier League matches with the kick-off time of 8pm in 2010. Unfortunately for Carragher, Sky Sports themselves rubbed salt in his wounds, mocking his trouser length in a tweet of their own.
The images were taken during his analysis of the Premier League title race, praising Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker and his team's faith in his ability during one-on-one situations. In a classy move, Carragher thanked goalkeeping analyst John Harrison for his statistics about the Brazilian to begin his breakdown.
"John, thank you. I don't just use Sky or Opta, I use anybody in the world who will prove me right. So listen, thanks John-boy," he said. "Liverpool and Alisson should've conceded eight more goals than what they have done from one-v-one situations. When you go back to the expected goal numbers, defensively, from Liverpool and Manchester City, where Man City are a lot of better than Liverpool, that is why.
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"That is the difference; they back their goalkeeper that he's going to have to deal with one of these every single game, but we've got the best at dealing with it, and the actual high line has helped them in terms of going forward and actually scoring goal themselves. When people say, 'this high line is a problem' I go back to what I said about Manchester City.
"The false nine, the high line - perceived weaknesses and it only needs to wrong once between now and the end of the season, that could cost either team the title. But it's not a massive problem for either team, they're actually strengths."
