There’s no need for him to be there now. Klopp called up mr boring and threatened to glass him unless hendo was released.
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Thanks England and Scotland. Maybe we should borrow a few things from your respective HQs, pour beer over them, give them a good kicking, chuck them out the window, let the dog crap on them, reverse the car over them and then we'll 'release them back to you'. Fucking idiots.
It goes from bad to worst... Fuck Internationals.. They should be played post season
They still have the nerve to act like they're following a duty of care. Sending Robbo back when you've played him within a nano second of his hamstring snapping is not 'being responsible'. Nor is doing much the same with Hendo. All that's doing is running players into the ground, for mickey mouse competitions, and then sending them back so as to avoid compensation for their imminent injuries. Absolute shitarses.
Steve Clarke is STILL saying that he wants to play Robertson in the next game - that's in spite of him admitting he's injured. '‘Andy’s injury is a little bit more significant than everybody else’s… But we’ve still got a few days to go before we get to Israel – so he’s coming with us. He’s on the plane". He's a bloody lunatic. Clubs really need to make a stand about this madness. It's not an ordinary season. International managers simply can't be allowed to act with impunity over such things. Hodgson wrecked Sturridge for good by playing him while injured just to show his power. Clarke needs being told in no uncertain terms that you don't mess around with club players like this.
Nuts. Even more crazy when you consider that Scotland's second best player is also a left back so they're not exactly lacking back up.
The clubs are the ones who invest millions in to these players and the national side takes a sizeable chunk of the reward. Absolutely none of the risk. Then drives the players in to the ground. No other industry would this happen.
International football is substandard these days. The top leagues and European competition has far exceeded it in terms of quality. International football needs retiring.
Absolutely. If they must do stuff during the season outside of competitions, then let them have a day at St George's Park or wherever, where horseface can point to his three excitingly ancient formations, tell them stuff like 'score more goals and concede fewer,' then send them home again. In fact, just hold a zoom meeting.
I wouldnt mind signing him but I'm not sure that he fits in a high energy midfield like ours. Defensively, he's a bit shit and not that much of a runner.
He's a Leicester type player, i.e he can choose to disappear in game. He would need to up his game to flourish at a club such as Liverpool but he's young enough to learn but that would be up to him.
I think some body needs to educate me on the stat above. How exactly does one attempt 9.7 line breaking pass?
Its averaged out per 90 mins
And only one assist to show for it. 😉
Seriously though, Hendo has evolved as a player ever since Fabs joined. So, he's a lot better than he was during the sideways days.
I believe the Mighty Mouse song inspired him to greatness. Take a bow, son
I'd like to think so too.
'The sideways days'. Jesus fecking christ. I see Modo's 'Massive Tit Days' are still going strong.
Henry Winter, Saturday December 19 2020, 12.00am, The Times
When Jordan Henderson began co-ordinating footballers’ response to the pandemic, the Liverpool and England midfield player was guided by the experiences of a cousin working on the NHS frontline. As he liaised with other Premier League captains, Henderson relayed stories of the severity of the situation, the people dying from Covid in isolation units, unable to see their family in their final hours. Henderson’s cousin would hold the patient’s phone and FaceTime relatives so they could say goodbye.
Henderson became so driven with raising funds for NHS workers that even when keeping fit during the first lockdown, pushing himself hard on his running machine, he fielded endless calls from the NHS and from club captains such as Kevin De Bruyne, Mark Noble and Troy Deeney. He talked and strode, cajoled and organised, helping establish #PlayersTogether which has generated millions.
Henderson’s remarkable 2020, fighting for the NHS, supporting gay rights and taking a knee, let alone lifting the Premier League trophy and representing England, has put him in the running for this weekend’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) award.
“A lot has gone on this year, good and bad,” the 30-year-old Wearsider says. “I’ve learnt a lot. I’ve grown a lot. I got more close with the kids [Elexa, Alba and Myles] and it was nice to have time with them but at the same time you’ve got everything going on in the outside world.
“I was waking up, sticking the news on, and it’s got the number of deaths. I became a little bit obsessed with it. Every morning you think, ‘the deaths are going up’. I thought it could only happen in films, so to be happening in real life was a shock. It put a lot of things into perspective: family is the most important thing, and health.
“In football you never have time to really reflect. Football is intense, constant. We get three weeks a year off and even then you’re training.” Lockdown allowed him to take a step back from the game, see the enormity of the pandemic sweeping the country, and made him determined to help. “I was on the phone four or five hours a day at times, setting up the fund, speaking to all the players,” he says.
“When I was training there were times I had to take the call. I couldn’t stop, I had to keep doing my running. I was listening and trying my best to reply. The captains were amazing, all the players were brilliant and it was a big boost to the NHS, the volunteers and the frontline staff who needed it the most — and still need it now.”
Henderson led Liverpool to their first league title in 30 years last season
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Even when the pressure finally eases on the hospitals, Henderson can see the strain remaining on many of the staff. “One of the many reasons I like NHS Charities Together is they focus as well on the mental health side. I’ve got family and friends on the frontline in the NHS up in the North East. I speak to my cousin and mentally some of the stuff they’ve had to do is incredible. They’ve got to be the ones holding the phone up, holding FaceTime, and letting them say goodbye. I couldn’t believe it.
“My cousin says you’ve just got to keep going. There are so many NHS people doing that up and down the country. They’re incredible. When the vaccine comes and it [the pandemic] starts easing off, the after-effects [of being on the frontline] could be a problem for some.” The players will continue to support them.
Henderson is proud of how the game’s dressing rooms rallied behind the NHS. He has built relationships with the likes of De Bruyne, seen the human side of rivals, but increased respect does not dilute his desire to beat them. “I can always say how good Kevin is as a player and I respect him on the pitch anyway but it’s my competitive nature that as soon as I step over the white line I want to win,” he says. “After the game, I speak to people a little bit more because you’ve had that contact, but when I’m on the pitch that will to win doesn’t change. Adam Lallana is one of my best friends but when we played Brighton the other week, as soon as you’re on the pitch you think only about winning.”
Henderson has won the Champions League, now the Premier League, and wants more. “My hunger hasn’t diminished, I can tell you that,” he says. “When you have a taste of it you definitely want that feeling again. The will to win has always been the same for me. When I was a kid growing up I hated losing. Going through school, through the academy at Sunderland, playing for Sunderland and Liverpool, that hunger has never changed.
“A lot of it is down to what I went through as a kid. I’d always miss out a little bit. When I was young, one of my good friends would win player of the year. In the academy, there would be somebody better. As I was getting older there was always someone who would get in the first team before me. I’ve been trying to prove people wrong, that I am worthy and capable of being a footballer.”
When did he feel he finally arrived? “Never.” But you’re the reigning footballer of the year?Henderson is a mixture of modesty and that slight, persistent niggle of insecurity from the past, the memory of Liverpool considering offloading him to Fulham in 2012, the number of potential positional rivals signed by the club.
Henderson has grown into an inspirational leader since signing for Liverpool in 2011
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He tries to play the “luck” card, that he has been fortunate to achieve so much, but it’s nonsense, of course. It’s hard work. “A lot of it is down to the way I’ve dedicated everything in life to football from a young age,” he says. “I’ve had the right people around me from the beginning: friends, family, wife, team-mates.”
He thinks of his parents, of the sacrifices they made for him. When winning the European Cup in Madrid last year, Henderson embraced his father Brian, who had just overcome cancer. “Every time I see it back, I get emotional,” he says “It was nice to see him so quick after the final whistle. He was on the sideline doing interviews. I’m thinking, what’s going on here?” (He adds that Brian’s health is “good” now.)
He thinks of his formative years at Sunderland. “There were great lads who helped me a lot, Phil Bardsley, Anton [Ferdinand], Dwight Yorke, Andy Reid. I learnt from them and Roy Keane and Steve Bruce as manager and Kevin Ball [in the academy].
“When I came here I learnt a lot from Stevie [Gerrard], Carra [Jamie Carragher], Pepe [Reina], Dirk [Kuyt], Glen Johnson, Daniel Agger and Lucas [Leiva]. If I look at the dressing room now it’s incredible not only in talent but mentality. I couldn’t ask for anything more as team-mates. They give everything every single day. They’re also good human beings who treat people properly and want to make a difference off the field as well. Jürgen [Klopp] and his staff are so good for me. Since Jürgen came in I’ve improved a lot as a player first and foremost but also as a person, definitely.”
Does he feel underrated? “I don’t need people to tell me if I’m a good footballer or not,” he says. “I don’t get to where I am without being a good footballer. The only people I need to have the trust, confidence and respect of are the players and the manager, whether that’s at Liverpool or England. I’m not interested in what other people may be saying.
“Football’s about opinions. People will like me. People won’t. Certain players may look better on the eye but it isn’t important for me. I’m there to do a job. I don’t look at myself like the fans look up to Sadio [Mané], Mo [Salah] or Trent [Alexander-Arnold]. Fans idolise them. I’m just normal.”
In his pursuit of excellence, Henderson still sees the distinguished sports psychiatrist, Steve Peters. “I spoke to Steve regularly when he was at Liverpool and I speak to him now and again,” he says.
Henderson flinches slightly when asked to describe himself as a player. He instinctively wants to play the “it’s a team game” card. After a pause, he replies: “I’d like to think I’m passionate, someone who gives everything for the team but also has the quality to produce good moments in both boxes, defending and attacking.
“One of the biggest things is I’d like to think I can make people better on the pitch and off. I’ve realised more and more that I’ve got responsibility to the outside [world] to make a difference.”
Henderson and the Liverpool players celebrate the Champions League success in 2019
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It’s why he wore the multi-coloured armband in Rainbow Laces week, supporting gay rights, and tweeting, “Football is a game for everyone”. A 24-year-old Dubliner, Keith Spooner, replied: “At 17 I came out, I struggled through my teenage years but the one thing that always made me feel at home was Liverpool. Seeing this means the world to me.”
Henderson responded: “You’ll never walk alone Keith. If wearing the #RainbowLaces armband helps even just one person then it’s progress. Everyone is welcome at Liverpool Football Club.” The post garnered 32,000 likes.
“It’s the truth,” Henderson says of Liverpool’s welcome to the LGBT community, “especially at this club and I’m sure at all the clubs in the Premier League and Football League. It took me 30 seconds to do and means the world for him. It would have been wrong not to. A big part of leadership is listening and helping. If I can do that and I feel strongly about it then why wouldn’t I say something or reply to people?
“I look at LGBT or Black Lives Matter and listen to people that are affected whether friends, team-mates or family and if I can help even just one person then it’s important to do that.”
He voiced the line “I’m tired of watching black men die” in Raheem Sterling’s anti-racism video. “It’s a powerful message needed,” he says. “I think taking the knee should continue. We’re sending a strong message that we’re all the same. I’ve got a lot of friends who are black, good friends, and it would be wrong for me not to say something. I want to support them as much as I can.
“Doing the video, taking the knee or speaking about it in public can only help other people understand more and more and educate people more and more. I’m a father. I want my kids to grow up with the education that no matter what colour, religion, gay or not, whatever, everyone is equal and you treat everybody the same.
“When you are in the dressing room none of that matters at all — religion, colour, sexuality, whatever. We’re a team and that’s it. Everyone respects each other.”
He points to the team’s change in choice of celebration drinks at trophy presentations because Mané and Salah are Muslim and don’t touch alcohol. “The champagne was non-alcoholic with the trophy lift because of Mo and Sadio,” Henderson says. “Within the dressing rooms there’s none of that [intolerance] so why isn’t that the case in the outside world?”
He recalls the racism endured by Sterling, Tyrone Mings and Marcus Rashford in Sofia in October 2019. “When England played in Bulgaria, it’s like, ‘Wow, this is actually still really happening?’ I would have walked off. We spoke about it before the game, we spoke about it at half-time, and if one player wanted to walk off, everybody walks off. No one [wanted to]. We felt the right thing was to stay on and play because if we walked off they [Bulgarian racists] would win.”
And if England get racially abused in the future? “If someone wanted to walk off, then everybody would walk off and I would make sure of it,” Henderson says.
He loves the variety in the Liverpool dressing room and admires each player’s individual journey. “I look at Sadio and Mo and where they have come from [rural Senegal and Egypt respectively] and what they have achieved is incredible.
Henderson says he has always been striving to prove himself since being overlooked earlier in his career
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“When we’re in the pool and Sadio’s swimming, he’s saying he learnt because he lived in a village right next to the water [the Casamance river in Sédhiou] so he used to like going in the water. I look at my journey and I’ve been very lucky, a working-class family, but I’ve never experienced some of the stuff they’ve been through in their lives.”
He thinks of Rashford, who needed sustenance from food banks and soup kitchens growing up and now leads the fight against child food poverty. “What Marcus has done is incredible and something that he’s been close to from when he was a kid,” Henderson says. “He deserves all the credit he gets. He’s not doing it for any other reason than to help the kids that need it. As an England team-mate of his, I’m really proud of what he’s doing.” Rashford is up for a special award at SPOTY.
For Henderson himself, it was “a bit of a shock” to be nominated for the main SPOTY award with Lewis Hamilton, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Stuart Broad, Hollie Doyle and Tyson Fury. “I look at Lewis and what he’s achieved over his career and a seventh world title this year,” he says. “Not only that but what he stands for off the track as well is incredible. It’s amazing what Ronnie has done in his career. I could go through all the nominees. They’re like the best in their sport for years and years. It’s a huge honour to be involved.
“I feel as though I haven’t done anything. Liverpool have had an amazing year, it’s about my team-mates.” I mention Liverpool fans’ forum verdicts that “performance levels drop when he’s not there” and their captain being “the heart of the team”.
And voice. Games behind closed doors have revealed Henderson, Kasper Schmeichel and Conor Coady as the most vocal. “Conor has to be top,” he says. “I listened to him in one of the England games and he was pretty loud.”
Henderson will be his usual demonstrative self against Crystal Palace this lunchtime. “I can get vocal but the lads understand it’s not personal, we’re all close enough to know that when someone needs a kick up the backside we need to tell them. That’s why I’m so emotional and passionate when I’m playing. I want to win.”
Henry Winter, Saturday December 19 2020, 12.00am, The Times
When Jordan Henderson began co-ordinating footballers’ response to the pandemic, the Liverpool and England midfield player was guided by the experiences of a cousin working on the NHS frontline. As he liaised with other Premier League captains, Henderson relayed stories of the severity of the situation, the people dying from Covid in isolation units, unable to see their family in their final hours. Henderson’s cousin would hold the patient’s phone and FaceTime relatives so they could say goodbye.
Henderson became so driven with raising funds for NHS workers that even when keeping fit during the first lockdown, pushing himself hard on his running machine, he fielded endless calls from the NHS and from club captains such as Kevin De Bruyne, Mark Noble and Troy Deeney. He talked and strode, cajoled and organised, helping establish #PlayersTogether which has generated millions.
Henderson’s remarkable 2020, fighting for the NHS, supporting gay rights and taking a knee, let alone lifting the Premier League trophy and representing England, has put him in the running for this weekend’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) award.
“A lot has gone on this year, good and bad,” the 30-year-old Wearsider says. “I’ve learnt a lot. I’ve grown a lot. I got more close with the kids [Elexa, Alba and Myles] and it was nice to have time with them but at the same time you’ve got everything going on in the outside world.
“I was waking up, sticking the news on, and it’s got the number of deaths. I became a little bit obsessed with it. Every morning you think, ‘the deaths are going up’. I thought it could only happen in films, so to be happening in real life was a shock. It put a lot of things into perspective: family is the most important thing, and health.
“In football you never have time to really reflect. Football is intense, constant. We get three weeks a year off and even then you’re training.” Lockdown allowed him to take a step back from the game, see the enormity of the pandemic sweeping the country, and made him determined to help. “I was on the phone four or five hours a day at times, setting up the fund, speaking to all the players,” he says.
“When I was training there were times I had to take the call. I couldn’t stop, I had to keep doing my running. I was listening and trying my best to reply. The captains were amazing, all the players were brilliant and it was a big boost to the NHS, the volunteers and the frontline staff who needed it the most — and still need it now.”
Henderson led Liverpool to their first league title in 30 years last season
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Even when the pressure finally eases on the hospitals, Henderson can see the strain remaining on many of the staff. “One of the many reasons I like NHS Charities Together is they focus as well on the mental health side. I’ve got family and friends on the frontline in the NHS up in the North East. I speak to my cousin and mentally some of the stuff they’ve had to do is incredible. They’ve got to be the ones holding the phone up, holding FaceTime, and letting them say goodbye. I couldn’t believe it.
“My cousin says you’ve just got to keep going. There are so many NHS people doing that up and down the country. They’re incredible. When the vaccine comes and it [the pandemic] starts easing off, the after-effects [of being on the frontline] could be a problem for some.” The players will continue to support them.
Henderson is proud of how the game’s dressing rooms rallied behind the NHS. He has built relationships with the likes of De Bruyne, seen the human side of rivals, but increased respect does not dilute his desire to beat them. “I can always say how good Kevin is as a player and I respect him on the pitch anyway but it’s my competitive nature that as soon as I step over the white line I want to win,” he says. “After the game, I speak to people a little bit more because you’ve had that contact, but when I’m on the pitch that will to win doesn’t change. Adam Lallana is one of my best friends but when we played Brighton the other week, as soon as you’re on the pitch you think only about winning.”
Henderson has won the Champions League, now the Premier League, and wants more. “My hunger hasn’t diminished, I can tell you that,” he says. “When you have a taste of it you definitely want that feeling again. The will to win has always been the same for me. When I was a kid growing up I hated losing. Going through school, through the academy at Sunderland, playing for Sunderland and Liverpool, that hunger has never changed.
“A lot of it is down to what I went through as a kid. I’d always miss out a little bit. When I was young, one of my good friends would win player of the year. In the academy, there would be somebody better. As I was getting older there was always someone who would get in the first team before me. I’ve been trying to prove people wrong, that I am worthy and capable of being a footballer.”
When did he feel he finally arrived? “Never.” But you’re the reigning footballer of the year?Henderson is a mixture of modesty and that slight, persistent niggle of insecurity from the past, the memory of Liverpool considering offloading him to Fulham in 2012, the number of potential positional rivals signed by the club.
Henderson has grown into an inspirational leader since signing for Liverpool in 2011
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He tries to play the “luck” card, that he has been fortunate to achieve so much, but it’s nonsense, of course. It’s hard work. “A lot of it is down to the way I’ve dedicated everything in life to football from a young age,” he says. “I’ve had the right people around me from the beginning: friends, family, wife, team-mates.”
He thinks of his parents, of the sacrifices they made for him. When winning the European Cup in Madrid last year, Henderson embraced his father Brian, who had just overcome cancer. “Every time I see it back, I get emotional,” he says “It was nice to see him so quick after the final whistle. He was on the sideline doing interviews. I’m thinking, what’s going on here?” (He adds that Brian’s health is “good” now.)
He thinks of his formative years at Sunderland. “There were great lads who helped me a lot, Phil Bardsley, Anton [Ferdinand], Dwight Yorke, Andy Reid. I learnt from them and Roy Keane and Steve Bruce as manager and Kevin Ball [in the academy].
“When I came here I learnt a lot from Stevie [Gerrard], Carra [Jamie Carragher], Pepe [Reina], Dirk [Kuyt], Glen Johnson, Daniel Agger and Lucas [Leiva]. If I look at the dressing room now it’s incredible not only in talent but mentality. I couldn’t ask for anything more as team-mates. They give everything every single day. They’re also good human beings who treat people properly and want to make a difference off the field as well. Jürgen [Klopp] and his staff are so good for me. Since Jürgen came in I’ve improved a lot as a player first and foremost but also as a person, definitely.”
Does he feel underrated? “I don’t need people to tell me if I’m a good footballer or not,” he says. “I don’t get to where I am without being a good footballer. The only people I need to have the trust, confidence and respect of are the players and the manager, whether that’s at Liverpool or England. I’m not interested in what other people may be saying.
“Football’s about opinions. People will like me. People won’t. Certain players may look better on the eye but it isn’t important for me. I’m there to do a job. I don’t look at myself like the fans look up to Sadio [Mané], Mo [Salah] or Trent [Alexander-Arnold]. Fans idolise them. I’m just normal.”
In his pursuit of excellence, Henderson still sees the distinguished sports psychiatrist, Steve Peters. “I spoke to Steve regularly when he was at Liverpool and I speak to him now and again,” he says.
Henderson flinches slightly when asked to describe himself as a player. He instinctively wants to play the “it’s a team game” card. After a pause, he replies: “I’d like to think I’m passionate, someone who gives everything for the team but also has the quality to produce good moments in both boxes, defending and attacking.
“One of the biggest things is I’d like to think I can make people better on the pitch and off. I’ve realised more and more that I’ve got responsibility to the outside [world] to make a difference.”
Henderson and the Liverpool players celebrate the Champions League success in 2019
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER BRADLEY ORMESHER
It’s why he wore the multi-coloured armband in Rainbow Laces week, supporting gay rights, and tweeting, “Football is a game for everyone”. A 24-year-old Dubliner, Keith Spooner, replied: “At 17 I came out, I struggled through my teenage years but the one thing that always made me feel at home was Liverpool. Seeing this means the world to me.”
Henderson responded: “You’ll never walk alone Keith. If wearing the #RainbowLaces armband helps even just one person then it’s progress. Everyone is welcome at Liverpool Football Club.” The post garnered 32,000 likes.
“It’s the truth,” Henderson says of Liverpool’s welcome to the LGBT community, “especially at this club and I’m sure at all the clubs in the Premier League and Football League. It took me 30 seconds to do and means the world for him. It would have been wrong not to. A big part of leadership is listening and helping. If I can do that and I feel strongly about it then why wouldn’t I say something or reply to people?
“I look at LGBT or Black Lives Matter and listen to people that are affected whether friends, team-mates or family and if I can help even just one person then it’s important to do that.”
He voiced the line “I’m tired of watching black men die” in Raheem Sterling’s anti-racism video. “It’s a powerful message needed,” he says. “I think taking the knee should continue. We’re sending a strong message that we’re all the same. I’ve got a lot of friends who are black, good friends, and it would be wrong for me not to say something. I want to support them as much as I can.
“Doing the video, taking the knee or speaking about it in public can only help other people understand more and more and educate people more and more. I’m a father. I want my kids to grow up with the education that no matter what colour, religion, gay or not, whatever, everyone is equal and you treat everybody the same.
“When you are in the dressing room none of that matters at all — religion, colour, sexuality, whatever. We’re a team and that’s it. Everyone respects each other.”
He points to the team’s change in choice of celebration drinks at trophy presentations because Mané and Salah are Muslim and don’t touch alcohol. “The champagne was non-alcoholic with the trophy lift because of Mo and Sadio,” Henderson says. “Within the dressing rooms there’s none of that [intolerance] so why isn’t that the case in the outside world?”
He recalls the racism endured by Sterling, Tyrone Mings and Marcus Rashford in Sofia in October 2019. “When England played in Bulgaria, it’s like, ‘Wow, this is actually still really happening?’ I would have walked off. We spoke about it before the game, we spoke about it at half-time, and if one player wanted to walk off, everybody walks off. No one [wanted to]. We felt the right thing was to stay on and play because if we walked off they [Bulgarian racists] would win.”
And if England get racially abused in the future? “If someone wanted to walk off, then everybody would walk off and I would make sure of it,” Henderson says.
He loves the variety in the Liverpool dressing room and admires each player’s individual journey. “I look at Sadio and Mo and where they have come from [rural Senegal and Egypt respectively] and what they have achieved is incredible.
Henderson says he has always been striving to prove himself since being overlooked earlier in his career
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER BRADLEY ORMESHER
“When we’re in the pool and Sadio’s swimming, he’s saying he learnt because he lived in a village right next to the water [the Casamance river in Sédhiou] so he used to like going in the water. I look at my journey and I’ve been very lucky, a working-class family, but I’ve never experienced some of the stuff they’ve been through in their lives.”
He thinks of Rashford, who needed sustenance from food banks and soup kitchens growing up and now leads the fight against child food poverty. “What Marcus has done is incredible and something that he’s been close to from when he was a kid,” Henderson says. “He deserves all the credit he gets. He’s not doing it for any other reason than to help the kids that need it. As an England team-mate of his, I’m really proud of what he’s doing.” Rashford is up for a special award at SPOTY.
For Henderson himself, it was “a bit of a shock” to be nominated for the main SPOTY award with Lewis Hamilton, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Stuart Broad, Hollie Doyle and Tyson Fury. “I look at Lewis and what he’s achieved over his career and a seventh world title this year,” he says. “Not only that but what he stands for off the track as well is incredible. It’s amazing what Ronnie has done in his career. I could go through all the nominees. They’re like the best in their sport for years and years. It’s a huge honour to be involved.
“I feel as though I haven’t done anything. Liverpool have had an amazing year, it’s about my team-mates.” I mention Liverpool fans’ forum verdicts that “performance levels drop when he’s not there” and their captain being “the heart of the team”.
And voice. Games behind closed doors have revealed Henderson, Kasper Schmeichel and Conor Coady as the most vocal. “Conor has to be top,” he says. “I listened to him in one of the England games and he was pretty loud.”
Henderson will be his usual demonstrative self against Crystal Palace this lunchtime. “I can get vocal but the lads understand it’s not personal, we’re all close enough to know that when someone needs a kick up the backside we need to tell them. That’s why I’m so emotional and passionate when I’m playing. I want to win.”
He's a bit simple, isn't he? That's not me in the picture, any more, presumably, than that cartoon is him. Oh, hang on...
Of course
You're the weedy little kid who volunteers to carry the school bad boy's bag every morning aren't you, you sad little cunt.
What?
Naturally
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