​The 10th episode of BBC Radio Merseyside’s A to Z of Liverpool focuses on the letter J – David James, Joey Jones, David Johnson and the late Diogo Jota.”Jota was a hero wasn’t he?” Phil Munns said on the latest show.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement”Quite often he was a player who would have an impact off the bench a lot of the time, and he had his song which gets belted out quite a lot now.”It’s still hard to sink in the fact that he’s gone.”Jota spent five years with the Reds, scoring 65 goals and winning four trophies before he tragically died in a road accident in July 2025.He is immortalised in Liverpool history for the big moments he produced at Anfield; not least of which was his final goal for the club when he netted the winning strike in the Merseyside derby against Everton.”He was so unpredictable in the way he made that run and even in the way he slotted it in because Jordan Pickford had dived out of the way and he managed to just put it down the middle,” Munns added.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement”But he was a big player for the big occasion. If things weren’t going right you had Jota there who you knew could pick a way through any defence.”Listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds