i’m the most real sailor ever cuz every traditional chanty is about a guy who’s like “UGHHH I HATE MY BAKA LIFE IM NOT GOING TO SEA ANYMORE!” and then they go back to sea the next day. like sailors need to go back to their roots of being hysterical women. and i’m doing my part.
It was constant football, football, football. Just dedicated. Everything I did was related to football. I had a plan and a dream to be a professional footballer whether that was at Liverpool or not. So I didn't plan for anything else as I was so focused on my number one dream. Year 10 or 11, I was told I was going to be released. To be honest that was probably the first heartbreak I've ever gone through. I can remember going back to the changing rooms and just bursting into tears. It felt like everything you had worked for, everything you had sacrificed, in that moment it genuinely felt like it had all been taken away from you and there was nothing left. I don't think unless you've lived it you truly understand it. I get passed jokes so many times, 'Oh you used to play for Liverpool and now you're doing this'. People pass judgement and they can't think how such a comment like that can actually affect someone. My industry it's sewers, it's drainage so you do get a lot of those side jokes and it's light-hearted, people doesn't think it affects you, but it takes effect. It makes you feel like you are worthless or you should be doing better.
Liam Robinson, former Liverpool academy player who is now a drainage operative