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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Ryan Paton

I moved from Walton to Dingle and it made me proud to be from Liverpool

Jamie Carragher, Billy Liddell and Brian Labone can all proudly lay claim to being one club men.

It's probably an ill advised decision to start a first person piece by seemingly likening myself to three of Merseyside's most legendary footballing figures. The comparison is even more perverse given my increasingly dodgy left knee and the fact I decided to hang up my boots just one year into the move to 11 a side when I was only 12.

However, the reason why I ignore these valid reasons is to illustrate how there's value in staying in a place that suits you and somewhere you can call home. It's also my way of justifying why it was only last year I decided to move out of my mum's house at the grand old age of 28.

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