Carragher's radio rage: 'I'm no bottler'

The 29-year-old was the subject of a phone-in on talkSPORT in which the programme's co-presenter Adrian Durham suggested he no longer had the stomach to play for England.

Carragher phoned the show and after convincing producers that he wasn't a crank caller, he told Durham: "Don't ever call me a bottler on radio with all those thousands of people listening."

"There's that many people he's [England manager Steve McClaren] played ahead of me. It's a game of opinions."

"But when you're at my age they are all younger than me, they are all going to improve and maybe I won't at my age.

"I'm 29, I've been doing it for eight years and obviously I haven't proved it enough so it's not going to change now is it? It's not like I've just got in the squad and I've jumped out."

Carragher added: "At the moment it's not 100% official because I've still got to speak to the manager before the next game.

"But it's looking like that and as I said, if there was a major injury crisis and the four centre-halves who he obviously picks ahead of me are all injured and he's absolutely desperate then of course I would (come back), yeah."

Carragher won the first of his 34 caps in 1999 when he came on as a substitute in the 1-1 draw against Hungary.

England manager Steve MaClaren has asked Carragher to put any thoughts on hold until next month's friendly against Germany.

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