Sammy Lee: ‘Going to Spain was the best thing that happened to me after joining Liverpool’

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He was very supportive when I wasn’t doing well. I went out and he never got a kick … and neither did I.

I wanted to play.“I went to QPR with Jim Smith, but I wasn’t right. After about four, five weeks, he says: ‘Now, listen …’ I thought I was getting sacked. ‘Oh, here we go.’ He said: ‘You should get your FA coaching qualifications.’ I shit myself.

“I didn’t know that,” Lee says. I said: ‘I can’t thank you enough.’ The players loved him.“The debriefing is: we’ve been knocked out, we’re going home.