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16th May 2017

Jamie Carragher defended his Team of the Year on Twitter and one reply in particular was glorious

He makes a lot of valid points

Darragh Culhane

Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher are a bit of a dream team when it comes to football punditry.

Since the pair has teamed up, Monday Night Football has been reinvented with viewers tuning in to watch the former England players take on some of the biggest talking points in football and comprehensively analyse key games.

With the season coming to a close this Sunday, the pair picked their team of the season.

Gary Neville’s team drew some criticism after he opted to include Thibaut Courtois over David de Gea in goal and only included one non-Tottenham or Chelsea player.

Carragher, on the other hand, chose a more varied team, employing the 3-4-3 formation.

And, on Tuesday morning he decided to take to twitter for a Q&A session about his team.

Most of his defences were fair.

He explained why he left out Liverpool’s Sadio Mané.

He stood by his selection of David Silva.

Even when someone said Coutinho’s goal record should have him in ahead of the Spaniard.

Carragher wasn’t afraid to admit that he could be wrong either.

And then things got a little bit petty when it came to explaining why he left out the league’s top goalscorer, Romelu Lukaku.

He did go on to give his more acceptable reasoning for the exclusion.

He loves Lukaku and Everton secretly (or not so secretly).

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