Stoke City striker Ricardo Fuller has revealed how a knee injury shattered his dream of joining Liverpool.

A serious knee injury wrecked his hopes while he was playing for Preston in 2003.

"It was November 30th at Coventry," he recalled to the Daily Mail. "I never forget the dates. They always live in my mind. Whenever I was on the way up, something like that would happen.

"Liverpool were watching me then and maybe I would have gone. But then I got injured and that was another chance disappeared. I was out for seven-and-a-half months in all."