Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has called Tottenham Hotspur forward "daft" for showboating during his side's 2-0 win over Nottingham Forest on Sunday.
The Spurs forward caused a stir after coming on as a substitute with 15 minutes remaining, winding his opponents up by juggling the ball in the dying stages. With Tottenham 2-0 up, Richarlison received the ball on the far side of the pitch and opted to casually flick it up with the outside of his right boot and begin juggling it before misplacing a pass to a teammate.
He then tried to win the ball back and as he passed it off to a teammate, Brennan Johnson clattered into the forward with Neco Williams landing on the former Everton striker. Following the incident, Sky Sports commentator Carragher said: "Woah! It does wind people up. You can't do that. But what is he doing?
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"He just winds people up that lad, Richarlison. He winds me up. What do you expect Johnson to do?" And Carragher has now given the clearest explanation yet of why the piece of showboating was "daft".
In a tweet, Carragher wrote: "It doesn’t matter what we all think of the Richarlison showboating, it’s what the opposition think. They thought it was taking the p**s and tried to take him out.
"You can’t condone that but the worst that happens is a red card, for Spurs it’s a bad injury. That’s why it’s daft." Forest boss Steve Cooper was also left unimpressed by the forward, and made it clear that he would not be impressed if it was one of his own players engaged in any similar antics.
"I wouldn't want my players to do what Richarlison did," Cooper said. "It wouldn't be accepted here."
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