I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.

This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Ian Callaghan is everything good that a man can be. No praise is too high for him. Words cannot do justice to the amount he has contributed to the game. Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game's truly great players.

I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.