Sam Allardyce ruined some of my favourite football memories. The first time I captained Liverpool was in a League Cup game at Anfield against Big Sam’s Bolton. I scored, too, in what is one of the proudest moments of my career — but we still lost!
That’s what Sam’s teams did to you. I scored one of my best goals for Crewe against his Blackpool side and, guess what, we lost that one as well.
So, I didn’t like him much early in my career. His teams always caused me problems and he used to gloat about coming to Anfield and beating my Liverpool side.