Given the increasingly important role of analytics in football, I thought I’d treat you to some - frankly astonishing - stats from my career.
In the 11 seasons I was at Liverpool, we averaged out at a top four finish every year, with a statistical position of 3.9th place. Everton, on average, finished 14th... meaning that in all my time at Anfield, we were roughly 10 places above them each season. We never once finished below them in my career with the Reds, and in fact, the closest they came to us in all that time was within three places on a couple of occasions. Which means we were a better team than them - by some distance - in all my games against them.
Yet, and this is where the astonishing bit comes in, Liverpool’s record in the time I was at the club in the first-team squad against Everton is: Played 20, won 6, drew 8... lost 6. So we had an equal record against a team who finished 10 places below us - every season for 11 years.
