“the boss told us france had ‘a poor man’s joe jordan’. it turned out to be a young cantona!”

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH 6DUNDEE 0 Scottish League Cup, 1977 “I was 20 and captain of Dundee for the second leg of a League Cup tie – we drew the first leg, then got hammered away. There’s a time in your li

You recently arranged for Sunderland to be the opponents for your Hearts testimonial – how do you look back on your time at the Stadium of Light? To stay in the Premier League the entire time I was th

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After joining the club as a schoolboy, John Terry rose to become one of Chelsea’s most iconic players and captains. Gianluca Vialli gave him his debut in 1998 but his breakthrough came in 2000-01, whe

Being someone who preferred ballet to the boozer, was your love of culture ever held against you as a player? I’d say so, but not as often as you’d think. Nobody really cared. They tried to take the r

How did your move to Wimbledon happen, at the age of 20, in 1979? I played for Edgware in the Athenian League – Brian and Edwin Stein were in the same team, they went to Luton and the talk was Luton w