Jamie Carragher: ‘CBS was worried whether or not the US audience would understand me’

CBS’s Champions League Today has been met with heaps of acclaim, drawing comparisons to TNT’s Inside the NBA. And Jamie Carragher has proved essential to the chemistry.

Jamie Carragher having a laugh at the Champions League game at St James' Park between Newcastle United and PSG

When Jamie Carragher was approached to join CBS’s Uefa Champions League Today panel, he’d already established himself as one of the most notable pundits in soccer.

But while English viewers had long grown accustomed to the Liverpool legend’s cutting remarks and eye-opening analysis on Sky Sports, there was one aspect of Carragher’s punditry that CBS Sports’ senior creative director Peter Radovich was concerned about.