Football dressing rooms have never been a place for the faint-hearted.
As with many workplaces, banter, pranks and practical jokes are often used to alleviate boredom from the daily grind and build morale between colleagues with, inevitably, boundaries occasionally being over-stepped, even if in today’s more litigious and (sometimes) empathetic society there is certainly more of an awareness of what is and isn’t acceptable.
The Liverpool dressing room during the club’s unparalleled era of success in the 1970s and 80s was known to be as ruthless as any, with numerous young players such as Ian Rush and Steve Nicol having to get used to the unforgiving realities of what it took to survive as their team-mates tried to toughen them up for life at the top level of the professional game.
