“at the start, it was just a cold. it never crossed my mind that it could be cancer”

After a long and distinguished playing career, mainly with Aberdeen, you became a manager in 1994. How did you find the switch? It seemed like a natural progression at the time. I got a call from Moth

What was your first game? It would’ve been a reserve game around 1973 or 1974. My first proper match was someone like Stoke or Ipswich – it wasn’t a big club like Manchester United or even Everton. On

You played 857 games for Liverpool between 1960 and 1978, making you the club’s record appearance holder. What does that title mean to you? It means a lot, being a local lad. It’s not just the appeara

You were already at Atletico Madrid when Diego Simeone became manager in 2011. How important was he to your career and the club generally? Diego Simeone was the first person who believed in me. He’s a

STEVENTON 6DIDCOT 0 Youth game, 1999 “I may have got some of the details of this game wrong, because I was 10 years old and it was 26 or 27 years ago, but this was the start of my love for football. I

Before he made his name as a livewire stri k er in the Premier League with Ever ton and Fulham, the Ca n ada international stunned the English champions with a br a ce in Brussels