Duncan Barkes

I thought, oh, that's good as well, because he's really growing into his game, isn't he?

I thought, that's going to do him the power of good.

And then, because of what was going on, I couldn't find out anything until about 10 minutes, 20 minutes, half an hour after the game, when I checked my phone again, BBC Sport Football Championship scores and fixtures, we won 3-1.

It's now Sunday morning and I'm just about getting myself together again.

I will tell you what happened because it's an indication of the fact that life is more important than football.

It doesn't matter what Bill Shankly says.

Do you remember that Bill Shankly quote?

Football is more important than life and death.

I don't know.

I can't remember.

I'm...

Because yesterday was a difficult day.

We've been looking after a toddler whose parents are away at the minute.

They can't help it.

They've got to be away.

But the toddler is recovering from chicken pox.

And yesterday, in the wee small hours of the morning, developed a viral infection, was struggling to breathe, was very feverish, very unhappy, crying a lot.

And so

We had to phone whatever it is, 111, and liaise with a qualified nurse, and we formed a plan which was to take her, when it opened, to the urgent treatment centre at a local hospital, and they would decide whether to refer her to accident and emergency or the children's ward or whatever.

So we did that at 10 o'clock in the morning, and obviously I had my phone with me because your phone goes everywhere, but I knew then