“ON THE INFAMOUS ‘DENTIST CHAIR’ NIGHT OUT, ME AND SHEARER STAYED BEHIND TO FINISH OFF OUR CHINESE”
You broke through at Wolves as a teenager during a time when the club suffered three successive relegations. How hard was that at such a young age?
It was all right when I first got there, because I’d left school to be an apprentice and it was still quite a well-run club that had just been relegated from the First Division. I made my debut in the Second Division, but then things started to go awry financially. John Burridge was the goalkeeper, but he joined Sheffield United and Wolves couldn’t afford to bring in a replacement, so I got a contract. I was 17 and missed only three matches that season [1984-85], but we were down by Easter and conceded 80-odd goals – though I won player of the year. I was so naive
