“After snubbing Chelsea, Ken Bates said, ‘I hope you have an effing nightmare against us home and away’, and slammed the phone down. I quite liked that!” Ray Houghton on his Liverpool exit

Irish International Football Player Ray Houghton Ireland versus the Netherlands in the 1994 World Cup Football Championships.

During his five-year stint with Liverpool, Ray Houghton won four major honours, as the Reds picked up two league titles and a pair of FA Cups in the final years of a dynasty that stretched back to the 1970s.

After arriving from Oxford United in 1987 for a fee of £825,000, the Republic of Ireland international would go on to make more than 200 appearances for the Anfield side before he was transferred to Aston Villa for a fee of £900,000 at the start of the 1992/93 campaign.