Carra covers 1,000 miles
Jamie Carragher embarked on a 1,000-mile journey back to his home town to attend a trophy presentation in Bootle earlier this week.
The Reds defender has spent much of the past month in Warsaw, Poland as part of ITV's panel of pundits for Euro 2012.
However, our vice-captain rushed back on two flights in time for the Bootle and District Schools FA presentation night on Monday at Bootle Town Hall.
John Rourke, Carragher's former headmaster, had invited his old pupil to the presentation but was amazed by the dedication the 34-year-old showed to reach the event.
"I dropped an invite to him four weeks ago, then came home and saw him on the TV in Warsaw and thought that was the end of it, he wouldn't be there," Mr Rourke explained to BBC Radio Merseyside.
"But he sent a text home to say he would be there. So on Monday night we were all waiting for him to attend, but at six o'clock there was no sign of him.
"Then we got a phone message from his dad, Phil, in Bulgaria. Phil got in touch with the town hall to say Jamie was on his way and he arrived at 6.20.
"He had got a plane from Warsaw to Amsterdam, then Amsterdam to Manchester and straight from Manchester to the town hall."
Carragher is a regular donator and contributor to the team he played for during his youth as well as to sport throughout the area, often giving away his shirts for charity.
"He is very proud to be a Bootle lad and to have played for Bootle Boys," continued Rourke. "He will do anything at all to help us raise funds. He has dropped a full international kit, from when he played against Poland, to us to raffle for funds.
"He has also given us lots of stuff to raffle for the district team. He supports us, anything we need we just have to contact him."
By a quirk of fate, the trophies presented on Monday all had 23 - Carragher's LFC squad number - written on them.
However, when he played for Bootle he wore No.9.
"He played centre-forward for Bootle Boys and he still holds the scoring record - 36 goals in a season," Rourke revealed about the man who has managed a more modest five goals in 699 appearances for Liverpool.