Games that changed my life

You were subbed on and off in 11 minutes on your Blackburn debut, then scored the winning penalty in a League Cup tie in your second game. That must have been a whirlwind? Blackburn are my hometown cl

Many kids come from council estates, but not many came from a council estate in Camden Town, when Britpop was at its peak. It was the ’90s, Oasis were huge and Noel Gallagher would go to the boozer wi

You worked with the great Brian Clough at Sunderland, Derby and Nottingham Forest. How was your relationship with him? Initially, I was in his bad books. When I joined Sunderland as an apprentice, he

XIBEST: Keiren Westwood, Rory Delap, Dean Walling, Jon Mellish, Danny Grainger, Rod Thomas, Callum Guy, Paul Conway, Francois Zoko, Michael Bridges, Jabo Ibehre. WORST: Shamal George, Christie Elliott

The room erupts. Not with cheers, but laughter. There are around 400 people at Gateshead’s Hilton Hotel, including Dan Burn, and a joke has just been cracked on the microphone at the defender’s expens

For the first time in 17 years, Tottenham actually won a trophy – a first European trophy since 1984, no less. That they did it in the same season as their lowest league finish for 47 years made it al