We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.
Charlton are a team who play well on the ball, but they found it hard to break us down, they didn't really have an out and out chance in front of our goal.
I remember how inspiring it was to meet players like Bobby Charlton or Bryan Robson when I was a kid. I still remember Clive Allen showing up when I received a trophy for my Sunday league team.
So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.
I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.
We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United.
My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.
I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.
I did loads of sessions with Andrew Oldham.
They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.