TEAMS
Blackpool
Macclesfield
Stockport
Rochdale
Bristol Rovers
Southampton
Liverpool
West Brom
Cardiff
England
Aged 31, having played in all four divisions, you scored the winner against Scotland at Wembley with your first touch for England. That must have been quite a lot to take in…
My whole career was about proving people wrong. I wanted to show I deserved to be in the squad. Mentally, I was on it all week in training and I think the other England players were surprised by my technical ability and touch. I was thinking, ‘Please give me game time’. After the match, my face was twitching – I couldn’t believe what had just happened.
Yet 16 years earlier, your Liverpool dream had been crushed. What exactly happened?
I grew up in nearby Kirby and fell
