The passion that has cost Carragher will ultimately ensure he survives spit spat

Jamie Carragher can console himself that there’s always someone worse off.

When compared with the actions of gun-toting Greek football club owner Ivan Savvidis, Carragher’s prodigious phlegm missile is well down the list of Crazy Things Sport Makes People Do — ranking some way below the cannibalistic outrages of Luis Suarez but above that time a Wicklow GAA referee got locked in his car boot.

At least Carra’s highway spit spat with 42-year-old Manchester United fan Andy Hughes has thus far only really inconvenienced the producers of Monday Night Football.