“I ALMOST TEAMED UP WITH MARADONA AT NAPOLI, BUT THE CLUB PRESIDENT GOT THROWN IN JAIL…”

FFT GRABS A WORD WITH… GLENN HODDLE • HERMANN HREIDARSSON • FABIO AURELIO • TIM FLOWERS

After spending your formative years in the Spurs academy, you made your first-team debut as a teenager at home to Norwich in August 1975. How much do you remember of that day?

I came on as a substitute, and I remember my first action was an aerial challenge where I accidentally clobbered a centre-back and broke his nose. That wasn’t quite the player I was, but my adrenaline was flying. The ball went above him, so I jumped, headed it and then caught him with my arm, which I didn’t] They must have been saying, ‘Who’s this animal?’ One other thing I remember is finding the pitch really small and tight. I was used to playing in front of two men and their dogs, but with 40,000 in there the pitch seemed tiny. That was weird.