Bruno Fernandes issues Jamie Carragher apology and says 'I had to say this'

Carragher initially scored his penalty but the former Liverpool defender was made to retake it after failing to wait for the referee's whistle.

On the second attempt, Ricardo came out on top and Portugal booked their place in the semi-finals, where they ultimately were knocked out by France.

Rooney had been sent off earlier in the fixture for stamping on Ricardo Carvalho, with Cristiano Ronaldo infamously winking at his then-Manchester United teammate as he walked off the pitch in Germany, reports the Manchester Evening News.

Speaking on The Wayne Rooney Show, Fernandes said: "Obviously 2006, everyone remembers because of Cristiano and Wayne's little bit of fire.

"(It) ends up with Jamie Carragher missing the penalty. I had to say this - sorry, Jamie," Fernandes admitted before turning to the camera.

"I had to get a little bit off you, you get on me all the time," he said with a smile. "I can get on you with that penalty.

"When I miss a penalty, don't say anything about it, please."

In 2021, Carragher spoke honestly about his anguish in response to Bukayo Saka, Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford receiving racist abuse for missing penalties in the final of Euro 2020.

In his column for The Telegraph, Carragher said: "Sven Goran Eriksson summoned me and gave me one job: to dispatch a spot-kick as convincingly as I had in every practise session.

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"I had not missed a penalty in six weeks. 'You'll take the fourth', Eriksson told me. Not a problem. England were 2-1 down by the time I made that 40-yard walk, but I was feeling confident staring at Portugal's No. 1 Ricardo.

"Knowing precisely where to place the ball, I struck it sweetly to the right, sending the goalkeeper the wrong way - my first touch of the game. There was a momentary sense of relief.

"Then the referee blew his whistle. The Argentine official, Horacio Marcelo Elizondo, said I had taken it too soon.

"Take two. Now I was engaged in a game of bluff with Ricardo, wrongly presuming he would think I would try to score in exactly the same way. I changed my mind and went left. So did he, pushing away my attempt."