{"id":819327,"date":"2026-10-31T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819327\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T03:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:16:09","slug":"aston-villa-to-take-legal-action-against-jamie-carragher-for-unacceptable-insults-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819327\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa to take legal action against Jamie Carragher for \u2018unacceptable insults\u2019 | Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aston Villa have announced plans to take legal action against Jamie Carragher<\/a> following his \u201cunacceptable insults\u201d about the club and its supporters.<\/p>\n

Carragher told Villa fans to \u201cshut the fuck up\u201d after facing criticism for suggesting Unai Emery should consider taking the Manchester United job. Villa responded on Friday evening with a statement on X signed by their chair, Nassef Sawiris.<\/p>\n

\u201cAston Villa will initiate legal action against Jamie Carragher for his unacceptable insults about the club and its fans,\u201d the statement said. \u201cAston Villa will not allow anyone to stop our ascension in English and European football. Nassef Sawiris, chairman.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Liverpool defender Carragher made his remarks on the Stick to Football podcast while discussing the prospect of Emery replacing Michael Carrick at Old Trafford. The 48-year-old Sky Sports pundit argued there was a hierarchy in football, saying \u201cAston Villa will never be Man United\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not trying to annoy Villa fans but there is a chain in football, whether you like it or not,\u201d said Carragher. \u201cSo Real Madrid will take Man United\u2019s best player, they\u2019ll take [Cristiano] Ronaldo. There\u2019s very few above United, the same with Liverpool.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut there will be teams below Aston Villa and they [Villa] will take their manager or they will take their players, so shut the fuck up Villa fans. Aston Villa will never be Man United.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Villa have announced plans to take legal action against Jamie Carragher following his \u201cunacceptable insults\u201d about the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-819327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}