Tributes flow for ‘top lad’ Ablett

TRIBUTES have been paid to former Liverpool and Everton defender Gary Ablett who has died from cancer at the age of 46.

Ablett lost his battle against non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on New Year’s day.

Former team-mate Paul Walsh, who played alongside Ablett at Liverpool in the 1980s, describing the news as “absolutely tragic”.