“WHEN I COULDN’T COME ON AGAINST MEXICO, I WENT INTO THE RAGE. MY MUM HADN’T SEEN ME SWEAR BEFORE”
Early in your playing career, you reached the European Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-finals with Newport County in 1980-81. That must have been quite an experience?
Yeah, it was fantastic. In my first season, we were promoted to the Third Division and won the Welsh Cup. Getting into Europe – what an experience that was. We played in Norway, we played Crusaders [in Northern Ireland] and we ended up in the quarter-finals. We were very unfortunate – East Germany’s Carl Zeiss Jena got lucky and we went out 3-2 on aggregate.
At your second professional club, you won the League Cup with Oxford United in 1986 – another terrific achievement, considering the size of the club...
We were big underdogs that day. We took on QPR in the final and steamrollered them 3-0. To play at Wembley was a
