How did your career get started, up to joining Wimbledon as a teenager in 1983?
After leaving school, I signed for Birmingham when Jim Smith was manager. But Jim got the sack in my second season, Ron Saunders came in, and he basically told a lot of players in the reserve team that they weren’t good enough. I was one of them. So, I called Jim after he’d gone to Oxford and asked if I could come for pre-season training. I’d been there for three weeks when Jim heard Wimbledon were looking for a left-back. He said, “Do you want to go and see what