My First Football Shirt: Graeme Le Saux

Ex-England and Chelsea left-back Graeme Le Saux has donned some banging shirts in his career.

The Blackburn Rovers title winning Asics big collared shirt, a whole host of Chelsea x Umbro classics and the timeless England shirt from France '98 kit but nothing came close to the feeling he got from wearing his Liverpool shirt when he was eight.

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Speaking to us exclusively in Your First Football - an illustrated book of 30 interviews with footballers and famous fans about their first football shirts - Graeme Le Saux revealed his first and favourite football shirts and favourite football moment.

What was your first football shirt?

A Liverpool shirt when I was eight years old that I got for Christmas. It reminds me of that amazing team that dominated English and European football along with Nottingham Forest, who I also really liked then.

Also reminds me of being glued to the TV in our house in Jersey when they were on, then spending the next few days pretending I played for them, either in our small garden kicking ball against the wall (or occasionally the patio door!), in the park, or on the beach.

The player I pretended to be most of the time was Kenny Dalglish. He was my absolute hero. It was surreal when I ended up playing for him, but I never did tell him I used to pretend I was him in my back yard!

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