Premiership: Birch keen to make amends for 'failure'

Chelsea’s new managing director, former Liverpool reserve-team player turned insolvency expert Trevor Birch, has ‘‘unfinished business’’ in the game to complete when he takes over the post.

Birch, who was Bill Shankly’s last signing at Liverpool and cleaned Kevin Keegan’s boots during five years in the Anfield reserves, considers his playing career to have been a relative ‘‘failure’’.