LIVERPOOL defender Jamie Carragher was involved in an amazing payback plot to attack Lucas Neill after the Aussie broke Carragher's leg. Furious Carragher was left in agony after the crunching tackle snapped the former England player's leg during a match in September 2003 while Neill was still at Blackburn Rovers.
But in his autobiography - now being serialised in the British press - he admitted he almost got his pals to mete out his revenge.
The Daily Mirror revealed this astonishing extract from the autobiography: "My mates were ready to hunt him down if I gave the go-ahead.
"A few weeks later I received a phone call. 'You won't believe this, Jay. We're in [Manchester shopping mall] the Trafford Centre and Lucas Neill is walking straight towards us. What do you reckon?'
"Did I really want Neill to take a crack? 'There's only one problem,' added the voice. 'Little Davey Thommo is with him.'
"That was that. I could hardly let one of my best mates, David Thompson, now a Blackburn player, become a witness to an assault.
"Besides, he'd have recognised the attackers. The impromptu mission was aborted and I sent a text to Thommo telling him Neill should give him a hug of thanks."
Carragher added: "As word got back to Blackburn about the near miss, or should that be hit, their coach Terry Darracott, a Scouser, appealed to one of my friends to call the boys off. I agreed."
