There was still no heating so sometimes in winter we woke to frost on the inside of the windows, but this was heaven. Today things have changed so much that recuper­ation can be amazingly fast for the determined, but it took a lot longer back then.

Such was the ultimate respect of the Liverpool supporters for him that the Kop sang with gusto "There's only one Martin Broughton. It turned out that Grandad (Spencer) was really my father’s stepfather and that his actual father had died when Dad was young.

So far Jim Ratcliffe, the British billionaire owner of petrochemicals giant INEOS, is the only confirmed bidder. 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.

It’s easy to read and told with a sense of humour - you end the book feeling like you have learned quite a lot about how those industries work - some of which are quite dysfunctional!But after several weeks of no improvements, and an increasingly steady decline, the doctors sent me for an MRI and CT scans. And you can't say: 'We're not going to talk to you Roman because you're not going through the process. He was a hero and was injured by the runaway horse but died of tuber-­ culosis four years later when Dad was seven. Sir Martin Broughton’s colourful life and business career is detailed in his recently published memoir, Whenever I Hear That Song. I’m not sure whether she was more relieved to find me alive or that she no longer had to explain to Mum and Dad that she had lost her seven-year-old brother.

C. appointed Martin Broughton to be their new chairman, despite the fact that he is a lifelong Chelsea supporter. Prompt treatment was required to break up the clot and greatly reduce the risk of death, hence the urgency. This time we had to queue up at the turnstiles and pay one shilling and ninepence to enter (eight pence in today’s cur­rency). While he has sounded out potential investors in Liverpool, with Henry’s Fenway Sports Group open to selling the Merseyside club, he failed to drum up interest.Some days there were hints of improvement, a temporary reprieve, and my wife, Jocelyn, and I would head into London for a Chelsea match, or dinner or a night at the theatre. Such was the ultimate respect of the Liverpool supporters for him that the Kop sang with gusto " There's only one Martin Broughton. Also part of Broughton's consortium for Chelsea, as well as HBSE and Lord Coe, was Indian entrepreneur and owner of the Sacramento Kings NBA team, Vivek Ranadive, as well as the person that recommended Mr Broughton for the role that he held at Anfield, Wall Street financier Michael Klein, a man well known to FSG due to his work on their acquisition of the Reds in 2010. He has not tried to put a bid together for United and is focusing on his passions, such as horse racing.

And now you’ve got the Saudis coming in to Newcastle, which will make it six and Tottenham are always sort of on the fringe. The loo was outside which was not very convenient when it was raining but meant you did not stay in there any longer than necessary, particularly in winter! He hasn’t repeated that mistake with United, declaring last month his intention to move for the club he has supported since childhood. It all sounded rather heroic as he had thrown himself in front of a runaway horse to save some young children and was killed in the process – or at least that was the story I believed for decades. Soon an older lady saw I was distressed and took me off to a ‘Lost Children’ meeting point where I sat for what seemed an eternity.The year they bought Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker, those were the two players that transformed the team. All through this very readable memoir run additional themes - his love of music, hence the book's title and the chapter headings, the importance of family and finally, in partnership with his wife - Jocelyn, an abiding passion for horse racing. Only a few weeks before I was the very picture of health but now I struggled to walk more than a few steps at a time. I’ve got eight horses with Paul [Nicholls], four with Jonjo [O’Neill] plus Peking Rose with Fergal [O’Brien]. Sure, they had a board majority, but directors can normally only recommend a deal to shareholders, which, as half-each owners of Liverpool, the American pair could surely reject.