In a ground that could hold 75,000 for a First Division match, there must have been all of 2,000 attending. I would say that up to puberty we were really two halves of the same person, and it was only after that that we developed our separate identities, but I have never found out if that is the norm for identical twins.

The culture is surely set: owners will expect to make money for themselves, by seeing the value of their club increase. That loss, and the sale of their shares in the club for nothing rather than the fat profit they envisaged, has been wrought by Broughton, the blue-chip chairman who kept his counsel for months, then came out fighting so defiantly last week.Broughton joined British American Tobacco in 1971, becoming finance director in 1988, group chief executive and deputy chairman in 1993 and, ultimately, chairman and chief executive in 1998. Supper was taken immediately before bedtime and normally consisted of two slices of white bread and dripping. When, in turn, he retired after 11 years at the helm, it was a very different and even more successful company. So how does Newcastle’s takeover affect the Premier League and what does Broughton know about their approach to entering the competition for trophies? When i think back to my childhood, I remember a happy, innocent time spent largely playing with my identical twin brother, Steve.

We were part of the remainder so were put to the side as Frost wanted all those dressed alike in the centre for the cameras. Being a twin should have made us less anxious than the other boys, at least we were not alone, but that was not how it felt at the time. Liverpool's supporter groups, strangely credulous when Hicks and Gillett rode into town, before waking up and mounting spirited campaigns, must now show themselves to be partners for peace time, to play a part – perhaps including raising money as ShareLiverpoolFC always promised – in decision-making. Steve and I felt it had the makings of a good game but was not quite there, so we started looking at the racing pages of the now defunct News Chronicle to get a better understanding of how racing worked.The ground seemed huge – it was all standing on the terraces back then with just one rather ram­shackle stand on the East side and we were on the West side. Since his retirement in 2004, he has been much in demand and continued to be one of the most prominent and influential businessmen of his generation.