Liverpool academy graduate and under-18s coach Jay Spearing has been diagnosed with Addison's disease.
The sportsman was hospitalised over the Christmas period before his body "started to shut down". He said he was "potentially hours/days away from going into something called adrenal crisis".
After many more tests and observations, Spearing was diagnosed with Addison’s disease. In his health update, on Instagram, he said: "Thinking back, I have been ignoring symptoms and changes in my body for over a year without it being checked. If I didn’t get this checked when I did things could have turned out very differently."
