Merseyside rivals to toast true football hero

For Jackie Ablett, wife of the late Liverpool and Everton player Gary, today’s FA Cup semi-final Merseyside derby at Wembley will be an occasion of deep emotion.

Merseyside rivals to toast true football hero

It’s just three months since Liverpool’s You’ll Never Walk Alone and Everton’s Z Cars were being played at her husband’s funeral. Gary — the only player to win FA Cups with both clubs — died from cancer on Jan 2, aged 46.

On Monday, the full story of his glittering football career and heartrending battle with illness will be told with the publication of his autobiography The Time Of My Life, a book he completed one month before he died and which now features a prologue by his wife.

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