Liverpool icon Steve Nicol's incredible medal and shirt collection expected to fetch thousands at auction

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I must admit, when I do the show for ESPN, all the time I’ve got Ronnie Moran floating around my head, the things he would say and the things he would do.“It’s not a question of me taking time out to think about winning those medals. Something would come up during any day and I’d be reminded of it."Nicol added: "When I was at home in Liverpool, I had everything on display in a snooker room.

I’ve never really had anywhere to showcase them, and I’ve been carrying them around for the last 25 years or so since I came to America.“We moved house eight months ago and we realised all the medals and memorabilia were all still packed away and there wasn’t anywhere to properly put them.“We don’t plan on moving again. It is the one win I value above all the others.“I’m still in touch with probably half-a-dozen people who I was really closely involved with at the time of Hillsborough.

"I had gone first and I was the only one who scored.“On the night, I knew I was going to take one, so as I’d gone first in the practice I just thought I’d be going first. And missed!”Nicol left Liverpool in 1994 and finished his career down the leagues before a surprise offer to become player-coach at Boston Bulldogs in 1999 led to him emigrating to the United States, where he spent almost a decade in charge of MLS side New England Revolution before moving into television.And recalling his move Stateside, Nicol said: “I had just finished at Sheffield Wednesday and I was playing for Doncaster in non-league just to keep going because I was going to be doing my coaching badges.“I actually did one day of a course when my agent called and asked if I’d be interested in being a player-coach to begin with in America.“People always say when you finish playing and, I’d like to think, had a good career, the phone won’t stop ringing.