I think the dislike was equal. Playing against Robbie Fowler and other local lads in the Liverpool team, you could feel that mutual dislike. Every time I used to go over to a referee, Jamie Carragher would have to be there as well to equal it out.
“It went beyond the two clubs as well. If you think back to the Manchester City game at Old Trafford in 2004, when I clashed heads with Steve McManaman, I had him, Fowler and Joey Barton all around me, going mad at me. It ran through every single game that we played.