How did football in London compare to Sheffield?
Footballers in London were becoming quite attractive celebrity figures, going to film premieres and opening hairdressing salons. We didn’t have anything like that in Sheffield. Well, there was Tony Currie… Yes, he of the immense thighs. Largest thighs I’ve ever seen outside of the cherubs in a Rubens painting. But other than him they all came from Sheffield, which was a very unglamorous place. You didn’t want male models. I’ve always felt that football was a very north-south, them-and-us thing. In odd ways, I still feel that, Chelsea being a collection of foreign poofters whereas in Sheffield there’s Andy Booth, who’s never scored a goal but he’s built like a chunk of rock and he keeps going. He only needs the one language. Have you ever been approached to get involved with a club? No, I’d avoid consortiums like the plague. Besides, United people think I support Wednesday and vice versa so I cover my tracks quite well. I don’t sit in directors’ boxes at matches. I’ve never really bee
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