Through playing in a testimonial football match in the late 1970s I got to know Emlyn Hughes. He recognised me as an ex-soap actor from TV, and eventually introduced me and my son Joby, then aged six, to Ray Kennedy.
One Saturday I took Joby to watch Liverpool play and they gave us tickets for the players’ lounge so that he could meet the team. I asked Joby who his favourite player was. “Ray Kennedy,” he said with his eyes lighting up. “I know him. I say goodnight to him every night on the poster on my wall.”
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