Meet Mohamed Sissoko

There has always been a tradition of brothers in English football: think the Charltons, the Blanchflowers, the Greenhoffs, the Nevilles and even, some are suggesting, the Ferdinands, too. Now get ready for the Sissokos.

Liverpool already have the pick of the current brood in Mohamed, West Bromwich Albion have his younger brother, Ibrahim, but you would be very wrong to assume the supply line ended there.

When Mohamed's brothers and sisters come to visit him in Liverpool he makes sure that they arrive in separate batches - it is not that they do not all get along but simply that his new apartment in the Sefton Park area of the city would not accommodate a group of siblings that numbers 15. Not so much a football team as a rugby side. His childhood in Troyes may not have been full of material comforts, but Liverpool's new £6.5m midfielder was never short of players for a kickabout after school. INTERVIEW WITH MOMO SISSOKO