Jake Livermore honoured to be West Brom skipper
Jake Livermore believes becoming Albion captain has impacted how he conducts himself on and off the pitch.
While Chris Brunt remains Baggies club captain, it is Livermore who has worn the armband as the team’s on-field skipper this year.
Since taking over those duties, the 30-year-old has shone with the midfielder a candidate for player of the year before football was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.
And Livermore admits he feels immensely proud to be Baggies captain.
“It’s an honour to put the armband on,” he said.
“Walking the mascots out, meeting different people – it’s a privilege being the captain of such a fantastic club. This club in particular. I think the role makes you change.
“There is a bit more onus on you so you adapt how you talk and how you conduct yourself.
“I’d like to think I’d always had that within and it wasn’t just the armband that changed that.
“But there are so many boys in that changing room who without them – it would be irrelevant what I do and what I say. We have got some great players in that dressing room.
“We’ve got some really, really, good young talent. And to captain the likes of Gareth Barry whenever you are playing alongside him – they are the sort of things that hit home.
“It’s a really talented squad and to be leading them on the front line so to speak is an amazing feeling.”
Livermore is looking forward to the day football can return. But in the meantime he’s enjoying a simpler way of life.
“It’s been nice going back to basics a little bit,” he said. “Not using the car, walking. We’ve had some lovely weather which has made it a lot easier – being in the garden.”
