According to Daily Express - Sport, Fernandes made the apology on The Wayne Rooney Show, telling Carragher: '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.' He also joked: 'I had to get a little bit off you, you get on me all the time. I can get on you with that penalty. When I miss a penalty, don't say anything about it, please.'
Carragher's penalty was initially converted but retaken because he did not wait for the referee's whistle. On the retake, Portugal goalkeeper Ricardo saved his spot-kick. Portugal advanced to the semi-finals after the shootout, where they were eliminated by France.
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.
Earlier in the match, Wayne Rooney was sent off for stamping on Ricardo Carvalho. As Rooney walked off the pitch, Cristiano Ronaldo winked at him.
In 2021, Carragher wrote about his personal anguish after Bukayo Saka, Jadon Sancho, and Marcus Rashford suffered racist abuse for missing penalties in the Euro 2020 final.
I had to get a little bit off you, you get on me all the time. I can get on you with that penalty. When I miss a penalty, don't say anything about it, please.
Sven Goran Eriksson summoned me and gave me one job: to dispatch a spot-kick as convincingly as I had in every practise session. 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.