Razor var også episk på sin egen måde... her fra collymores biografi..
Ruddock was privileged to play for Liverpool in a defence previously
represented by legends such as Alan Hansen, Mark Lawrenson and Tommy
Smith, all of whom gave their all, all of the time. He´ll argue that
he always gave a hundred percent but during some training sessions, he
couldn´t even give the club one percent.
"Razor seemed to pick up a lot of injuries," said Collymore. "Once, he
and I and a couple of the other lads were in the little gym at Melwood
doing some recuperative work while most of the players were outside on
the training pitches. The physio came in and told Razor he wanted him
to do half an hour´s running on the treadmill while he went out and
supervised some of the lads who had just returned to full training.
"As soon as he was a fair distance away, Razor, who weighed about 18
stone by then, hopped of the treadmill but left it running. He reached
down into his bag and pulled out a foil container which had a bacon
and egg sandwich in it. He sat down, whipped out a newspaper and
started reading through it.
"I was keeping a lookout for him and eventually I saw the physio start
to make his way back towards the gym. Razor had a bag of ice that was
supposed to be for him to strap around his injured foot. Some of it
had melted so he rooted around in it and splashed the water over his
hair and face and a bit on his t-shirt for good measure. And then he
jumped back on the treadmill.
"The physio came back in, saw a guy who seemed to be sweating like a
pig and was fill of admiration. ´Razor, f***ing great professional,´
he said, looking at everyone in the room as if we should all be using
Razor as our model.
"If you could get away with it at Liverpool, you did get away with
it."