The odds are stacked against you becoming a footballer, so my family made sure I always had a backup plan.

As a kid, I used to go and wait at the gates of Melwood or look through the cracks in the wall just see if I could see any of the people I was looking up to, who we all wanted to aspire to become, when we were in the Champions League, the likes of Gerrard, Carragher and Alonso.

You are brought up to realise that there will always be tough times in football and that nothing is ever straight forward.

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