Current stars Steven Gerrard and Joe Cole turned out for the Reds, who also welcomed back old favourites Luis Garcia, Emile Heskey and Michael Owen.

Carragher converted a penalty for Liverpool in the first half, before scoring from the spot for Everton, the team he supported as a boy.

The Liverpool defender is celebrating 16 years of service at Anfield.

Club captain Gerrard played the first 10 minutes, just hours after helping England to a 4-0 win over Bulgaria at Wembley on Friday night.

“Because I’m so close to Jamie, not just as a team-mate but as a friend, I wanted to be here to share it with him,” said the
England skipper. “I asked for permission to fly in and out and have a small cameo and Capello was fine with it, although I’m sure his decision was based on beating Bulgaria 4-0.”

Former Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier, who has been linked with a return to the Premier League with Aston Villa, sat alongside Roy Hodgson in the dugout.

“I think it took a lot for him to come back,” said Carragher about Owen. “He took a bit of stick at the beginning but he won them around as the game went on and people respected that he had got involved.”

Owen won the penalty for the opener a minute before half-time, when his shot struck the arm of Jose Baxter, allowing Carragher to step up and slot past Iain Turner.

Garcia, currently playing for Greek side Panathinaikos, then added a second after good work by Cole and Heskey on the right side of the penalty box.

Cole volleyed in Liverpool’s third before reserve team striker Nathan Eccleston rounded off the scoring.

But when Carragher fouled James Vaughan in the Liverpool penalty area, the centre-half himself stepped up to fire an own goal beyond Brad Jones from the spot.

With six own goals in competitive games, Carragher still holds the unenviable record of having scored more goals against Liverpool than for them.

With an impressive 34,631 fans in attendance, Carragher is hoping that the proceeds of the game will top £1m for his 23 foundation and other local charities.


Link: http://lfcglobe.com/video-jamie-carraghers.../#ixzz0ybLDjsu3

Saw the discussion on Owen and Mascherano a couple of pages earlier. Didn't want to really reopen the debate about loyalty and whether they are right in doing that.

Just want to add that Mascherano wasn't a nobody when he came over with Tevez. Both him and Tevez were bought by Kia Joorabchian, personally and loaned out to West Ham. In fact, Mascherano was so highly rated, even more than Tevez, that in the loan agreement between Joorabchian and West Ham, that if Mascherano played more than 15 games for West Ham, there has to be a "fee" of 5 milliion paid to Joorabchian, and if Mascherano play for 20 games or more, West Ham HAS to buy him for 20 Million. That is the real reason that he was sitting on the bench for West Ham,not because he was a nobody, he was an even bigger star then Tevez then. Just that none of us (well not many anyway) have heard of him before hand.

No Kewell???

LOL damn funny this scouser .. snatched yakubu's penalty >.< what the hell

i watched that replay 3 times and noticed the everton player just roll over himself without anyone near him.

i guess it is JC's script

Ohh.. i thought the video skipped

i saw the photos of ex-liverpool players. missed them so much.

yeah,my fav player that time,with luis garcia

lol

yakubu ask him to take or what?




fuuuu garcia,i miss this guy
miss his scored againts arsenal and chelsea

luis garcia
he drinks sangria
he came from barca
to score us goals
hes 4 ft 7
hes football heaven
so please dont take our luis away

This post has been edited by deanmalenko: Sep 5 2010, 12:48 PM

awww...i miss garcia...his goal was superb...hmm..any1 can enlighten me on where to see the whole match again coz i dun think astro's showing it...=(

luis garcia's goal is nearly the same which he scored against juventus in anfield 5 years ago.. i will remember that in my whole life. 2 legends scored that day.. LUIS GARCIA AND HYYPIA...

hahaha

i like all garcia goal,including all his "lucky" goal lol

Without a doubt. He released players like Ray Houghton and Peter Beardsley prematurely while they were still in their prime. Some of his signings were questionable to say the least. I'm still wondering how a championship winning team ended up with players like David Speedie, Paul Stewart, Mark Walters and Julian Dicks in our first team.

This post has been edited by Duke Red: Sep 5 2010, 02:33 PM

King Luis has still got it in him. he was available on a free transfer in the recently ended transfer window. would have been a good squad player for us i think. but perhaps he went to panathinaikos looking for more game time.

any more links to the testimonial game?

King Luis..
really miss him

if can see king luis pairing with torres this season, how nice...

nah, the one against juve was even better. further away from goal, hitting the ball on the air.

anyway i read this on RAWK, i suppose this guy watched the whole match

It would have been da*m perfect! + xabi alonso.

i guess if all old players like heskey,owen,murphy,warnock etc guessed our current team look solid

lol.. funny carra and the ref... LOLZ

damnit.. i miss luis garcia.. his style.. his flair. his creativity (which we are lacking).