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"Come on Paul. It's okay.

Give him a cuddle,"

and then pulling, lifting him out of the coffin,

and kissing him and saying sorry.

He got cremated,

and afterwards, like, Keith says,

"Come and stay with me for a while."

And I stayed in the room where the coffin was

for three days

and that wasn't too good.

You know, I just, I didn't even sleep.

Just wide awake. Just, you know,

keep looking all the time, thinking,

"That's where the coffin was."

And then after a few days,

I went back home, you know?

But she was affected for a long time,

Maureen, I know that.

You know, I remember her getting tablets

to make her sleep.

She couldn't sleep, you know.

I don't blame her. Losing her son.

Obviously Harry had to stay strong

because he was obviously the father.

But then sadly both of them

passed away, you know, with cancer.

Which I found out,

which was quite upsetting.

So I never really got to buy her

that kettle I owed her,

because I blew her kettle up.

When I put the kettle on

there was no water in.

So she always remembered,

"You owe me a kettle."

I remember afterwards,

I started developing twitches like...

Making stupid noises

and I couldn't get rid of flashing like that.

And then my mum took us to a psychiatrist

and he wanted to play with sand.

And I just went, "Mum, don't take us

back there any more. And she didn't.

Um, so I don't think I started

psychiatrists early.

But we used to laugh about it, my mum,

and my brothers and my sisters.

I wouldn't do it and then all of a sudden, like,

my sister would come by

and she went "Paul..."

And do that

and that would set us off again.

Mum, she's doing it again."

All the time I was playing when I was 14,

I was just waiting for Newcastle, really.

Fortunate for me, it happened, you know.

But I had to put in the work as well.

Ii wasn't easy.

Them days, we had to get in early.

Put the kit out for the professionals.

If they wanted a cup of tea, make the tea.

Then we'd have to clean the balls.

At that time, the manager was Arthur Cox.

Tough cookie.

He used to put the team sheet

up on the Friday,

who was playing on the Saturday.

And I touched the sheet.

And I went, "Look, it's a certain..."

I think it was Neil McDonald.

Because he was a good player

and he was young, and that.

And I went, "Neil's playing,"

and I touched the sheet,

and he nearly took my ear off.

He smacked us right across the ear.

And he went, "Don't touch that f-ing sheet

until you're on it."

So that's what it meant to be

a professional footballer

and I thought, "Sh*t, I'm in trouble."

Yeah, and I was panicking.

So I thought, I'll make him

a cup of tea and that.

Polished the cup and made it perfect for him,

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