“GAZZA STRIPPED OFF, MUMMIFIED HIMSELF IN TOILET ROLL AND THEN JUMPED INTO THE SWIMMING POOL”
You kicked off your career in non-league at Wealdstone. Did you think you’d make it as a professional?
No – I really had no idea whether I’d be good enough to get beyond the youth team. I got into the first team at the end of that season – not on form, but because we were playing Saturday-Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday and a lot of senior lads couldn’t take the time off work. I thought, ‘I’m getting £15 a week to be semi-pro – this is brilliant’. I was 21 when I turned pro with Coventry.
Even when you joined Nottingham Forest in 1985, you regularly advertised for work as an electrician in the programme. Why?
For the cash! I set up my own business when I moved to Coventry. I went
