It's the hardest thing I've done but it's nothing compared to losing Puddy

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Nobody should go to work and not come home.”Puddy’s story resonated with people from Merseyside and beyond, with banners in his honour hung from the stands at Liverpool matches and thousands raised for his funeral costs.A year on from Puddy’s death, his close friend James Watson, 20, from Norris Green, said they met when they started West Derby School in Tuebrook and quickly became best mates.James told the ECHO last month: "We dropped him off at his house on Tuesday night then the next day we got the worst phone call I have ever got."His mum and his family had to go to the docks and then they started ringing us all [his friendship group] telling us what had happened. You think about them every day obviously because he’s not around.“The main goal was to take people’s minds off it.

I speak to his mum every day about it, so it’s just a bit of a distraction really.“I’ve seen people do 325km, so I thought I’d up the ante and do it in miles. James said: “I made a list when I started the run of places that meant something to either me and Puddy or his other friends and family.“We’ve got stickers that say RIP Puddy on, so they’ve been stuck in pubs we used to go to, there's one outside our school where we used to play sports, there's one outside Anfield.”The run will finish tomorrow when James arrives at Puddy’s family house, where he will be greeted by Puddy’s family and his own.James said: “I thought I'd finish it on Christmas Day because it brings everyone together.

I’m finishing at his house.“The emotion will take over, just the relief of finishing and obviously seeing all this family and what it's for. I know it's me who's doing the running, but I obviously wouldn't have been able to do even half of it without all the donations.“It has probably been the hardest thing I've ever done but it’s nothing compared to losing Puddy.