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In a poignant moment, McAteer shared how he once prevented himself from taking his own life and expressed how much he misses playing since retiring.

"I just had no purpose, mate, it was no structure," the former Liverpool star confided to Silvestre.

And as you go out the daylight into the tunnel light, it's like this kind of light.

"I remember thinking to myself, I'm just going to swing the car here and just end it.

And I'd be fighting the steering wheel and I remember coming towards the end of the tunnel and it was like the daylight was opening up.

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"And I remember coming out the tunnel thinking 'thank God, just thank God'.

My mum lived 10 minutes around the corner and I knocked on a door and I remember just saying, 'I can't do it anymore.

Just like running, just running out, just running out, just free on a footy pitch