Liverpool goalkeeper Brad Jones has spoken of his son Luca's tragic death and how he and his family have dealt with their loss.

The 31-year-old, who has a baby son Nico with partner Dani Lawrence, lost Luca last year to leukemia at the age of six.

"You go through everything," Jones told the Daily Mail. "Anyone who's lost someone goes through the same, times when you're really down, feel guilty, you feel you could have done more. But at the end of the day, you couldn't. You have to deal with it.

"We probably had Luca for a year longer than expected. He ended up having two birthdays in hospital. After the first one, we weren't expecting another one. He was really fighting. We knew, he didn't, that there wasn't long left. He pushed himself to make sure he got there."

Jones has been filling in for regular keeper Pepe Reina in recent weeks due to injury.