“Everyone was leaving Anfield and ran back in after my magnificent header. People ask, ‘Do you remember that goal you scored?’ As if I scored millions!” Neil Ruddock on his favourite-ever game

Neil Ruddock.

There was more to Neil Ruddock than his reputation as a non-nonsense hard man suggested.

While, yes, the London-born centre-back was one of the more fearsome players of his era - FourFourTwo ranked him at no.9 in a list of the hardest players of the 1990s - there was another side to his game.