Revisiting Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville’s start of season predictions

Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville have been box office viewing on Sky Sports for years and, at the start of each season, they try to predict what will happen in the upcoming Premier League campaign.

Neville has often been criticised for his punditry this campaign, with some viewers claiming that the former right-back is too biased when talking about Manchester United, for whom he made over 600 appearances as a one-club man.

The pair are often involved in lengthy debates, both on Super Sunday and Monday Night Football, as their passion and detailed analysis means their pre-match build-up is sometimes more interesting than the matches shown.

As the season prepared to kick off in August 2021, both pundits made their predictions for the campaign on a number of aspects, including which teams would over or underachieve, as well as players to look out for.

Looking back at the predictions with the season nearing completion, there are some shouts which look worse and worse each day, whilst some were scarily spot on. We’ve broken them down to see which pundit had the better vision.

The only one both agreed upon was the question of who would finish top of the pile, and both went for Manchester City.

For most of the season, this looked to be a fairly straightforward affair, but some poor results for Guardiola’s side has seen Liverpool come within touching distance of them, setting up a fiery title race to finish the season.

“You’ve got to go with Man City with what they’ve done the in the last few years. Chelsea and Manchester United have something to prove, Liverpool have to get back up to the level they were at,” Neville stated in August.

“City have been at the highest level, there’s a question of Aguero going and not being