Jamie Carragher accuses IShowSpeed of ‘using’ Cristiano Ronaldo before the former Liverpool star and the YouTuber go comically head to head on the pitch

Sparks flew when YouTube star IShowSpeed spent the day with CBS Sports pundits Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards recently.

Speed, whose real name is Darren Jason Watkins Jr, is a 20-year-old American content creator with almost 40 million subscribers on YouTube.

Much of his content to date has centred on his obsession with Cristiano Ronaldo, the five-time Ballon d’Or winner and the world’s most-followed person on Instagram.

Richards and Carragher quizzed Speed about his love for Ronaldo while they shared a car ride together, which was streamed live on Twitch.

‘What’s the obsession with Ronaldo? We never actually address this on CBS,’ asked Richards. ‘I know you love him, I respect that. But why do you love him so much?’

Speed responded by describing Ronaldo as ‘The GOAT’, meaning greatest of all time.

He said: ‘He is literally No 1 in the football world. He is literally No 1 in the world. Ronaldo’s the GOAT.’

But a sceptical Carragher asked Speed: ‘Were you just using him to try and get your numbers up?’

Speed replied instantly with a defiant ‘no’, but Carragher hit back: ‘I think you were.

‘He was massive on social media. You come in when you were 15 to start to get going, you jump on Ronaldo, you do his celebrations…’

At this point, Richards was in fits of laughter. However, the car then briefly fell silent after Speed created an awkward moment by asking Carragher: ‘Jamie, have you ever lifted a trophy a day in your life?’

Speed repeated his question to Carragher, who in turn asked the American: ‘Lifted a what?’

Seemingly unaware of Carragher’s list of honours, Speed added: ‘A UCL trophy. Have you ever lifted a UCL trophy?’

Carragher, who was part of the Liverpool team that won the UEFA Champions League in 2005 after fighting back from 3-0 down to AC Milan in the final, responded with a question of his own: ‘What do you think?’

Shaking his head, Speed answered: ‘No, you have not.’

Somewhat smugly, Carragher then looked down the lens of the camera and said: ‘That’ll go down well on your stream. I was only part of the greatest final of all time.’

Doubting what he had just been told, Speed pulled out his phone and said: ‘Let me look this up on Google’, as Carragher and Richards giggled beside him.

Later in the stream, Speed and Carragher went head to head on an indoor pitch. Their one-on-one battle turned out to be just as amusing as their earlier chat.

Speed tried to dribble past ex-defender Carragher but a heavy touch took the ball into the corner, where he was tackled.

Now in possession but unable to beat his opponent for pace, Carragher tried to use his strength to get the better of Speed.

However, despite plenty of pushing and shoving, Carragher also succeeded only in getting to the corner of the pitch and losing the ball.

Speed then had another go at using his pace to skin Carragher, but lost both the ball and one of his shoes.

He then accused Carragher of being too rough. ‘He hit me in the face’, said a flagging Speed. However, this either never happened or was not caught on camera.

In addition to winning the Champions League in 2005, Carragher lifted the FA Cup twice during his Liverpool career.

He also won two League Cups, two Community Shields, two UEFA Super Cups and one UEFA Cup (now the Europa League).