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DANNY MURPHY talks to Adam Forshaw: A big-hearted manager with a volatile streak, tour bonding, interior decorating - and the WhatsApp group with Jesse Marsch! The secrets of Leeds' AMERICAN REVOLUTION revealed

Some moments make you feel old. Sitting down with Leeds midfielder Adam Forshaw, he revealed that, as a lifelong Liverpool fan, he used to go to Anfield as a kid and see me play.

'I was also at the team hotel before the 2001 FA Cup final against Arsenal,' he says. 'You were standing at your balcony and I shouted up 'Murphy!'. My dad gave me a look and said 'His name is Danny.' I was nine and obsessed with that team, Michael Owen, Sami Hyypia, you, Stevie [Gerrard] and Jamie Carragher.'

He laughed when I provided some extra information to bring the story full circle.