There’s a reader in every team. Jamie Carragher loved a footballer’s autobiography. Guardiola, Wenger, Maradona, Cruyff – he would work through a different one every week. Rob Green would not only read on the bus but would go to his local in Hampstead and read there too. He had his own mug behind the bar, would get them to make him a tea, and then sit by the fire reading. Classic goalkeeper’s move. I have no idea what he used to read when we were on England duty because I never got that far down the wrong end of the bus. Also I was too busy throwing stuff at him. We are 20- and 30-year-old men with kids. I know.
