Liverpool wing-back Sam Hart says he enjoyed his loan spell at Port Vale.

Hart spent the first half of the season at the League One club.

He recalled to the Mirror: "I remember on my first day we did a little possession exercise and four players came after me trying to kick me.

"That is one of the days I like when it gets scrappy and I like the tackles so I fitted right into it.

"I was competing with another lad for the left-back spot and my sole thing was to play games and get ahead of him and I did that.

"Men's football is a lot different because they are playing for their livelihoods, but it is what I needed and I think I learned a lot from that.

"I came back here a lot more mature having learned a lot more from playing with those kinds of people."