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But Sir Bobby confirmed: "I left Steve out purely for tactical reasons and nothing else.
"He has never let us down since he came back into the side but because of the way I knew Liverpool would line up we did not need his type of player.
"I felt that we did not need a tall central defender to combat anything in the air but I knew that Andy O'Brien and Aaron Hughes could cope with the sort of players Milan Baros and El Hadji Diouf are and I think our tactics paid off."
Caldwell is still waiting to find out if he will be offered a new contract by the club for next season.