Stan Collymore looks back occasionally at interviews he gave when playing for Liverpool and Aston Villa and is not sure what he sees. Nervousness, maybe. Uncertainty, perhaps. Not happiness, for sure.
‘I had got to the very top of the ladder at Liverpool but then looked over the wall into the secret garden and it wasn’t what I imagined,’ Collymore tells Sportsmail. ‘Villa? That was just so disappointing. Depression, John Gregory, the Priory.
‘I look back at those interviews and ask myself where I was the most content and the answer is at Southend.