Howard Gayle: I needed mental resilience to survive as Liverpool’s first black player

In an exclusive extract from his new book, 61 Minutes In Munich, the former forward outlines the problems he suffered being a trailblazer at his boyhood club

I get asked the same question regularly: ‘What was the secret of Liverpool’s success?’

Many of Liverpool’s players will answer similarly and talk about the simple intensity of the coaching, the training and the instructions: the degree of trust. All of that is true. Underlying everything, though, was the culture of one-upmanship.

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