We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.

Somehow our kids survive. And surprised as we are, we do have to concede that this is what parenting is about; raising them to be happy, healthy, productive members of society.

When I was growing up, our whole family used to get together at Christmas, but we hadn't done that for some 30 years, ... Some of us got together in North Carolina last year, but this is the first time everyone's come up here. Everybody wants to see the game.