Geoff Shreeves

aware I was in my peak and we were doing well for Liverpool but I then put so much pressure on myself because I got to a stage where I thought I can't make a mistake I can't have a bad game because I'm playing that well or I'm seen as you know the main man at the back for Liverpool trying to stop the goals at one end and Stevie's probably scoring with the other and I put that much pressure on myself and I always remember it was a game away at Atletico Madrid in the Champions League Sky I'm sure would have done it and we were winning 1-0 I was playing quite well a typical European game

and I made a mistake, and they scored 1-1, and I couldn't sleep, but it wasn't the end of the world, you didn't go out to Champions League, it was a group stage, and I thought, I've got to speak to someone, I need to speak to someone, really, because people, it's difficult to speak to your dad, or your agent, or maybe someone else in the dressing room, because they don't actually know what you're going through, and what's going through your head, and that's why they're employed to do that.

Sorry for interrupting there, Craig.

That was exactly what I was going to say.

Sorry for jumping in, Jeff.

But how much did you actually enjoy your career?

Because sometimes I look back and think, I love playing football, don't get me wrong, but how much did I actually enjoy it and should I have enjoyed it more?

Because it always felt like when you won or played well, it was more like relief than enjoyment in some ways.

Craig, do you remember, I think you're talking about a knee operation.

Did you get yours done in America, Stedman?

I think we got it done the same summer.

Was we in the same holiday place in Portugal or should we both have the same injury?

But you know what I want to pick you up on on that?

I always use this example now of when you stop playing,

you almost become friends a little bit with people you didn't play.

So, you know, you speak to Gary or you speak to different people.

I know I played with Craig.

But at that time, you were at Newcastle.

I was Liverpool.

And he used to annoy me when I played.