Liverpool FC book extract: Howard Gayle Gayle says: "There were those that had pre-conceived ideas about black footballers. There would be little jibes. There would be racist jokes. But one of the worst thing you can do to a black person is say, 'Oh, I don't mean you . . . you're all right.' I'd been brought up in a way that confronting people on such issues had become second nature to me. My brothers used to tell me if you needed to pick up a brick or a rock to defend yourself, then do it - whatever you do, never let anybody bully you. At Melwood, clearly I couldn't start scrapping, so I needed to respond to it in a different way. I soon realised that I could only change opinions by what I did on the football pitch. Gayle's finest hour for Liverpool was his role in a 1-0 win in the away leg of a European Cup semi-final against Bayern Munich. There were 70,000 people and I was the only black person inside the stadium. So I became the target for all the abuse. Every time I got the ball, the German supporters were doing the Sieg Heil sign. They had banners up with the swastika, and every time I looked into the crowd there was hatred and anger. They made monkey noises at me every time I touched the ball. I honestly didn't give a s***. It spurred me on. No matter how bad things get, we can always get a result anywhere in the world because we're Liverpool Football Club. Grobbelaar on death threats, Heysel and Anfield's high standards Barnes on England's long-ball game, racism and Beardsley