#3. Suffers with OCD
Slade lives with obsessive compulsive-disorder, OCD to those that know it best.
‘The boys in the dressing room would be laughing at me, watching me tying my laces for 15 minutes,’ Slade says. ‘The laces on these trainers here, they are different now to what they would have been. I’d have needed to make them perfectly flat on both feet. They would have got to me if they were like this.
‘It sounds strange, but if something like that wasn’t right, or if I hadn’t put my boots on right, and we are only talking a couple of years ago, then I would worry about something going wrong to me, or friends or family.
‘I know it is ridiculous, but that is the way I was.’