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• Paula Carragher to visit stadium for only second time
• Defender leads Liverpool XI v Everton to mark 14-year career

Jamie Carragher may have played 634 times for Liverpool in his 14-year professional career but the most significant appearance among the gallery of stars present at Anfield for his testimonial tomorrow will be his mother’s.

Paula Carragher has only once before visited the ground, and even then it was very early in his career when the now 32-year-old was still a youth team player. But she will make an exception to watch her son’ as he captains a Liverpool XI against a side from Everton, the club Carragher supported as a boy.

“My mum has only been to Anfield once, when we won the youth cup,” said Carragher. “She’ll be in the directors box for her second outing but football has always been for the boys in our house.

“I am looking forward to enjoying the game. It will be a family day and I’m sure my kids will go on the pitch at some point for a kickabout.”

Carragher has been keen to stress the testimonial, which will raise funds for his 23 Foundation supporting groups and charities in Liverpool, does not signal the end of his career. He does admit it is a time for reflection, though.

“The obvious highlight is Istanbul in 2005,” he said. “But I think my first full league game when I scored against Aston Villa [was significant] because without that who knows what I would have achieved?”

Asked to pick a low point he said: “There have been plenty of those – the more you play the more bad ones you have. I remember losing 3-0 to Everton and having a nightmare, I didn’t sleep for a week afterwards!”

Liverpoolguardian.co.uk