Liverpool captain Jordan
Henderson said it was people
like Ronnie Moran who made it
such an honour to wear the
armband at Liverpool. And he said that the greatest
tribute all the current players
could give the Boot Room legend
was to give their all for the club
he loved. Moran was Reds captain when
Bill Shankly arrived at the club
and would go on to become a
fixture on the Liverpool coaching
staff in a service which stretched
for 49 success-filled years until 1998. Henderson said: “The reason
being captain of Liverpool
Football Club is such a huge
honour is because legendary
figures like Ronnie Moran held it
before I did. “I wasn’t lucky enough to work
with Ronnie but I had the great
fortune of being in his company
on the occasions when he came
to Melwood to walk around the
training pitch and although we all regarded him as a true great, he
was as humble and down to
earth as anyone you could ever
come across. “I know I speak for all of the
current players when I say that
we are all deeply saddened by
Ronnie’s passing and the
greatest tribute we can pay to
him is to give everything we’ve got for Liverpool Football Club
just as he did each and every
single day during the 49 years he
spent here. "YNWA.”
