Rio Ferdinand has slammed Liverpool for not apologising to Patrice Evra after he was subjected to racist abuse from Luis Suarez in 2011.
Liverpool's players wore t-shirts in support of Suarez during the warm-up against Wigan Athletic that season, after the Uruguayan was found guilty - on Monday, former Reds centre back Jamie Carragher apologised to Evra, saying 'we got it wrong.'
But Ferdinand, who was on the pitch in October 2011 when Suarez abused Evra, hit out at the length of time it has taken for any apology to come from those associated with Liverpool.
Speaking to BT Sport, Ferdinand, who was Evra's team-mate at Manchester United for eight years, said: 'That's eight years late, eight years late. Testament to Jamie Carragher for apologising, eight years after the incident.
'I was there on the pitch. At the end of the day, it's bigger than Jamie Carragher - it's the club.
'Liverpool let themselves down that day, wearing t-shirts in support of someone who's been accused of a racist comment.
'Yep, eight years on and still the apology hasn't come from Liverpool in that sense.'
Carragher, who was Liverpool vice-captain at the time and in the squad, admitted on Monday: 'We made a massive mistake, that was obvious'.
'As a family, football club, your first reaction is to support them and that's wrong.
'I'm not condoning Suarez, it was wrong, for clubs that is the first reaction. And we got it wrong, apologies.'
The Uruguayan then failed to shake his opponent's hand in the return match at Old Trafford later in the season.
Evra admitted on Monday that education was required, instead of necessarily a ban - Ferdinand agreed with the sentiment that education is the answer.
'But I just think the game's moved on from then in terms of the narrative now,' said Ferdinand.
'Everything on the edge of everyone's tongue at the moment is racism.
'At that point then it wasn't so people were kind of startled into like "what do we do, what do we do". Even more so now - we're still sitting here saying 'what do we do?'
'It's not a t-shirt which is gonna change it, it's not a day in the season which is going to change it, it's education definitely.'