{"id":292158,"date":"2023-09-26T11:33:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T11:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=292158"},"modified":"2023-09-26T11:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T11:33:57","slug":"ex-sky-sports-pundit-richard-keys-hits-back-at-jamie-carragher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/ex-sky-sports-pundit-richard-keys-hits-back-at-jamie-carragher\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Sky Sports pundit Richard Keys hits back at Jamie Carragher"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former Sky Sports presenter Richard Keys has hit back at Jamie Carragher following his comments about Aaron Ramsdale during the north London derby on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ramsdale was an unused substitute during the Gunners’ 2-2 draw with rivals Tottenham, with summer signing David Raya being preferred to the England international.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And, despite the fact he may be losing out on his No.1 spot at the Emirates, Ramsdale showed a heap of support for his team-mate during the tense North London Derby.<\/p>\n
One instance of that came after a brilliant stop from Raya in the first-half was met by clapping and smiling from benched star Ramsdale.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During post-match analysis, on Sky, Carragher said: ‘I thought it was like the\u00a0Oscars, you know when someone loses the Oscar and they start clapping and smiling for the other person. I was laughing when I saw that. He’s absolutely devastated with that really.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Aaron Ramsdale has been criticised for a theatrical reaction to a save from team-mate David Raya during Arsenal’s 2-2 draw with Tottenham on Sunday<\/p>\n
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Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher (L) blasted Ramsdale for the incident, but now Richard Keys (R) has fired back in defence for the out-of-favour Gunners star<\/p>\n
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Keys took to his blog to voice concerns with Carragher’s comments from Sunday afternoon<\/p>\n
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Later that evening, Nick Ramsdale replied to a Tweet about Carragher’s comments and said: ‘You are a Disgrace!! Show some class!! My lad has’.<\/p>\n
And now, ex-Sky Sports presenter Keys has weighed in on the situation and praised Ramsdale’s father for his rebuttal to the ex-Liverpool star.<\/p>\n
Writing in his blog, I was interested to see\u00a0Aaron Ramsdale\u2019s dad leap to his son\u2019s defence by lambasting Jamie Carragher for his comments during the derby game. Good on him. I feel for Ramsdale. He\u2019s a terrific \u2018keeper and made of the right stuff, which is why he\u2019ll turn up elsewhere and go on to have a very good career.<\/p>\n
‘I didn\u2019t agree with Carragher\u2019s midweek assessment that Arsenal\u00a0would never win the title with Ramsdale in goal. When I saw that my initial reaction was \u2018nonsense\u2019, because they were a whisker away from doing so last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘But then I realised that Carragher played in a team that was never going to win the title with him in it, so he probably knows more about the subject than me’.<\/p>\n
Prior to the game, Arsenal boss\u00a0Arteta explained his decision to drop <\/span>Ramsdale to the bench was\u00a0<\/span>due to how the Gunners wanted ‘to play on the day’.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018It\u2019s trying to play the way we want to play on the day. I made some calls and left some players on the bench,’ the Arsenal manager said on Sky Sports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ramsdale was seen clapping with his hands aloft after a save from team-mate David Raya<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The two Gunners keepers have been battling it out for the top spot in north London<\/p>\n Amid the debates, Ramsdale spoke out – via his Instagram story – for the first time since the game, after sharing previous pictures celebrating his team-mates’ successes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The first image that he shared was from his days at Bournemouth and it showcased the keeper celebrating a penalty shootout victory where Cherries team-mate Mark Travers shone in goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n The caption for the post, which was initially shared in August 2019, read: ‘@marktravers1 (clapping hands emoji) through to the next round. Well in big man’.<\/p>\n The second image showed Ramsdale enjoying the celebrations after Reiss Nelson’s last-minute winner against Bournemouth in March.\u00a0<\/p>\n Nelson came on as a substitute to score the winning in their 3-2 win over the Cherries and sent the Arsenal players and fans into jubilation.<\/p>\n Ramsdale captioned the original post: ‘Limbs! Enjoy life’.<\/p>\n The Arsenal keeper shared two pictures from his page that showed his previous support<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 25-year-old has made 83 appearances in all competitions since joing the Gunners in 2021<\/p>\n Despite the debate over the starting goalkeeper,\u00a0Raya was helpless to prevent Tottenham from scoring two on the day and earning a point in the derby.\u00a0<\/p>\n The hosts opened the scoring through a deflected Bukayo Saka strike before Spurs captain Son Heung-Min levelled the scoring just before the break.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Gunners restored their lead shortly after half-time, when a Cristian Romero hand-ball saw the hosts earn a penalty and Saka convert his second of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n But the visitors fired back just one minute later after James Maddison picked the pocket of Jorginho to set up Son for his second of the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n
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