I found my 1984 tracksuit top in an old box!

I’VE JUST come across some gear that I wore on two of the greatest nights of my career. I had some stuff in storage while in the process of moving into a new house and opened a cardboard box to come across two tracksuit tops we wore to walk out before the 1981 European Cup final in Paris and the 1984 final in Rome, both of which we won. I thought my son, James, had taken them to university and managed to lose them but it turns out I’ve got them after all!

I don’t know what happened to the No 11 jerseys I wore in those finals against Real Madrid and Roma. I’m not really one for putting mementoes of the past in cabinets or in frames up on the wall.

‘Tomorrow is all that matters’, was what they always told us at Liverpool, where Ronnie (Moran) would come into the dressing room with our league championship medals we had won the year before in a cardboard box and dump them on the massage table. ‘There are some medals from last year. If you really think you deserve one, help yourself,’ he’d say. And then he would walk out, returning five seconds later to say, ‘By the way, you get f*** all this year for what’s in that box.’ So that’s where I’ve put the tracksuit tops. Back in the cardboard box.