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Liverpool legend John Aldridge pays an emotional tribute to Diogo Jota on LFCTV(Image: LFCTV)

Liverpool legend John Aldridge was left fighting back tears as he paid a touching tribute to Diogo Jota in an emotional interview on LFCTV.

Jota was killed in a car crash, along with his brother, Andre Silva, last Thursday (July 3) after their vehicle veered off the road following a tyre blowout.

The pair had been travelling across Spain to catch a ferry in order for the Reds striker to return to England in time for pre-season.

The majority of the Liverpool squad travelled to Jota and Silva’s hometown of Gondomar as they were laid to rest over the weekend.

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The club aired a free-to-view hour-long special tribute show in honour of the Portuguese at Anfield on Monday.

Aldridge had earlier laid a wreath among all the tributes at Anfield on behalf of the club’s former players, with the ECHO columnist also the chairman of their official association, Forever Reds.

And speaking to LFCTV afterwards, while looking on at the endless tributes from supporters, an emotional Aldridge was left fighting back the tears as he admitted he had been unable to think about little else since Jota's tragic passing.

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“It is (devastation), yeah, it is.

I’m still numb,” said Aldridge, who who was a member of the Liverpool side at Hillsborough in 1989.

It is (comprehensible that he won’t be there), yeah.

“He spoke so highly of Liverpool and his love of the city.

The one thing that over the last three or four days… he has got a fantastic song that they sung, but you can’t get it out of your head.

“And it keeps coming back because the song is in your head all the time and you’re thinking about him nearly 24 hours a day because the song keeps coming back and you keep thinking…

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“It’s an iconic song and that’s the respect these people and Liverpool fans all over the world have for him.

Yeah, (his song will still be sung many times), absolutely, yeah.