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What was the first game that you ever saw live?

It was at White Hart Lane in the late 1970s. My Uncle Junior went with me. I lived in Stoke Newington, so we got the 149 bus all the way to the ground. Liverpool lost 1-0 to Spurs and I cried all the way home.

Who was your childhood hero, and did you ever meet them?

I started supporting Liverpool around the time that Kenny Dalglish signed from Celtic in 1977, but then John Barnes [below] became a hero and idol of mine – not just for the way he played but because of the way he was. More recently, Steven Gerrard was a

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