You left hometown club Middlesbrough for Aston Villa, before securing a dream move to Liverpool in 2011. Do you wish you’d spent longer than two seasons there?
It all started so well for me – we won the League Cup against Cardiff after a penalty shootout. I scored with my spot-kick and won man of the match that day. I thought that would be the start of something special. We should have won the FA Cup that year as well, because we were better than Chelsea on the day, but it wasn’t to be. Though I was quite happy with the way I’d started, to end up eighth in the league wasn’t good enough and Kenny Dalglish lost his job. Brendan Rodgers came
