Jamie Carragher: ‘CBS was worried whether or not the US audience would understand me’

CBS's Uefa Champions League Today has been met with heaps of acclaim, drawing comparisons to TNT's Inside the NBA. And Jamie Carragher has proven essential to the chemistry

When Jamie Carragher was approached to join CBS's Uefa Champions League Today panel, he'd already established himself as one of the most notable pundits in soccer.

But while English viewers had long grown accustomed to the Liverpool legend's cutting remarks and eye-opening analysis on Sky Sports, there was one aspect of Carragher's punditry that CBS Sports' senior creative director Peter Radovich was concerned about.